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Category Archives: Carl Schmitt
What Is The Role Of The State?
From the 2019 book, The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt: * Oakeshott concedes that authority is seldom durable, no matter the form of political organization achieved. Anarchy always lurks “just below the surface,” and once authority is questioned or denied, … Continue reading
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Depoliticizing Power
Stephen Turner wrote in 1989: Carl Schmitt’s renovated Hobbesianism, with its insistence on the antithesis between authority and truth contained in the Hobbist slogan auctoritas, non veritas facit legem, (law is decided by authority, not by truth) provides the dialectical … Continue reading
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Constitutional Dictatorship: Its Dangers and Its Design
Here are some highlights from a 2010 paper in the Minnesota Law Review by two Yale University law professors, Sanford Levinson and Jack M. Balkin: “I’m the commander-see, I don’t need to explain-I do not need to explain why I … Continue reading
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NYT: CARL J. FRIEDRICH DIES AT 83; INFLUENTIAL HARVARD PROFESSOR
Joseph Berger wrote in 1983 for the New York Times: Having lived in an era which saw the rise of Nazism and the spread of Communism, Dr. Friedrich sometimes took a dour view of the human inclination for freedom. In … Continue reading
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The End of Law: Carl Schmitt in the Twenty-First Century Second Edition
Here are some highlights from this 2019 book by William E. Scheuerman: * When I penned this volume’s first edition over twenty years ago, the Carl Schmitt “bug” had just hit the Anglophone intellectual world, with many political theorists, jurists, … Continue reading
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Carl Schmitt’s Erotic State Of Exception
From Carl Schmitt: A Biography by Reinhard Mehring: Paul Gottfried wrote in 2015: Reinhard Mehring’s study of the long-lived German political and legal theorist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) is the most exhaustive biography known to me of a deeply fascinating subject. … Continue reading
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A Jewish Analysis Of Western Politics
Charles Lesch is a professor of political science at Vanderbilt. He has his PhD from Harvard. He recently published: Theopolitics Contra Political Theology: Martin Buber’s Biblical Critique of Carl Schmitt. He’s also published, Democratic Solidarity in a Secular Age? Habermas … Continue reading
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The Concept Of The Political
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Politics without Vision: Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century
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Philosopher Stephen Turner On Carl Schmitt’s Concept of the Political
Stephen Turner faculty page Stephen Turner Amazon Author Page Schmitt, Telos, the Collapse of the Weimar Constitution, and the Bad Conscience of the Left https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schmitt https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schmitt/ The Concept of the Political PDF Springtime for Schmitt Stephen Turner’s response: Carl Schmitt: … Continue reading
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