Come join us, won’t you, for a deep dive into one of the twentieth century’s biggest assholes. Say hello to Carl Schmitt: Jurist, legal scholar, political philosopher… Nazi? Look: We’re only showing you him so you know how to get away from him.
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Sources:
Gopal Balakrishan – The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt
Angus Brown – ‘The Left Should Have Nothing to Do with Carl Schmitt’, Jacobin
Stuart Elden – ‘Reading Schmitt Geopolitically: Nomos, territory and Großraum’, Radical Philosophy
Carl Schmitt – Dictatorship
Carl Schmitt – The Concept of the Political
Carl Schmitt – The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of Jus Publicum Europaeum
Carl Schmitt – Political Theology
(Image: Carl Schmitt’s grave in Plettenberg, Germany. The Greek inscription reads, “KAI NOMON EGNŌ” / “And I Know the Law”)
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