Category Archives: Carl Schmitt

Legality, legitimacy, and Carl Schmitt (Paul Gottfried)

Posted on September 18, 2016 by Luke Ford

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

Posted on September 18, 2016 by Luke Ford

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

Posted on September 18, 2016 by Luke Ford

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

Posted on September 17, 2016 by Luke Ford

From Reinhard Mehring’s Carl Schmitt: A Biography: Wikipedia.

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Constitutional Theory

Posted on September 16, 2016 by Luke Ford

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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