Category Archives: Carl Schmitt

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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