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Category Archives: Carl Schmitt
NYT: Friendship’s Dark Side: ‘We Need a Common Enemy’
MP3 From the New York Times: Take the new evidence that people choose friends who resemble themselves, right down to the moment-to-moment pattern of blood flow in the brain. The tendency toward homophily, toward flocking together with birds of your … Continue reading
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The State Of Exception
In Judaism, life is almost always the highest value, just as self-preservation is usually the highest value of any nation state. No legal system, no constitution, is able to maintain itself in all contingencies. Sometimes a nation to survive must … Continue reading
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A Fascist Philosopher Helps Us Understand Contemporary Politics
Prof. Alan Wolfe writes in 2004 for the Chronicle of Higher Education: To understand what is distinctive about today’s Republican Party, you first need to know about an obscure and very conservative German political philosopher. His name, however, is not … Continue reading
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The Goyim In Jewish Jurisprudence
Torah law makes no provision for non-Jewish citizenship in the Jewish state. Generally speaking, a goy cannot serve as a valid witness in a Jewish law court. Texts written by gentiles are rarely cited in the Torah tradition. It is … Continue reading
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Legality, legitimacy, and Carl Schmitt (Paul Gottfried)
Paul Gottfried wrote for National Review in 1987: ON APRIL 7, 1985, the death of Carl Schmitt, at age 97, brought to an end the longest and stormiest career in the history of political thought. Schmitt’s hero, Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), … Continue reading
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Carl Schmitt: Politics and Theory. By Paul Edward Gottfried. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990
Review: Paul Gottfried’s brilliant new work elucidates Schmitt’s view of the state. As Gottfried stresses, Schmitt rejected the pluralism of Harold Laski, who saw the state as but one of many groups within society. This anti-political view ignored the essence … Continue reading
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A Jewish Perspective On Carl Schmitt
Paul Gottfried writes in 2015: Carl Schmitt: A Biography, Reinhard Mehring, Polity, 700 pages 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 … Continue reading
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Why Carl Schmitt Became A Nazi
From Reinhard Mehring’s Carl Schmitt: A Biography: Wikipedia.
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Constitutional Theory
From page 191 of Reinhard Mehring’s Carl Schmitt: A Biography: Schmitt defines the state as the ‘political unity’ of a people and interprets the ‘positive’ constitution as the ‘complete decision over the form and type of the political unity.’ Every … Continue reading
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Who Is My Brother?
I have two main intellectual interests at the moment — the political theology of Carl Schmitt and the Talmudic tractate Bava Kamma. Bava Kamma 88A translated into English reads: R. JUDAH, HOWEVER, SAYS THAT NO DEGRADATION IS PAID IN THE … Continue reading
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