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The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt (Gopal Balakrishnan)

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

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Schmidt's Debasement of German Law

Schmidt rejected what would later be called atlanticism, the idea that the usa and western europe belonged to a common and thus shared political interests. He wrote a massive work on german constitutional law, which is untranslated to english,. analyzing the relationship between democracy and rechstadt. This book sounds like the most relevant to to day, both in its topic and in the specific diagnoses about modern liberalism. Schmit's next work was more theoretical, the concept of the political first published in 19 27, then substantially revised in 19 32. It gave him something in common with the later french new right as well as the left in general.

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