The Enemy
An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt
Published on 5. May 2020
322 pages
978-1-78960-795-6 (ISBN)
Description
The writings of Carl Schmitt form what is arguably the most disconcerting, original, and yet still unfamiliar body of twentieth-century political thought. In the English-speaking world, he is terra incognita, a name associated with Nazism, the author of a largely untranslated oeuvre forming no recognizable system, coming to us from a disturbing place and time in the form of fragments.
The Enemy is a comprehensive reconstruction and analysis of all of Schmitt's major works-his books, articles and pamphlets from 1919 to 1950-presented in an arresting narrative form. The revelation of his work is that, unlike mainstream Nazi ideology, Schmitt makes a strong philosophical claim for the necessity of confrontational politics within a democratic system; a claim that has resonance in today's hegemony of consensual politics.
The Enemy is a comprehensive reconstruction and analysis of all of Schmitt's major works-his books, articles and pamphlets from 1919 to 1950-presented in an arresting narrative form. The revelation of his work is that, unlike mainstream Nazi ideology, Schmitt makes a strong philosophical claim for the necessity of confrontational politics within a democratic system; a claim that has resonance in today's hegemony of consensual politics.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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978-1-78960-795-6 (9781789607956)
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Gopal Balakrishnan is the author of The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt, and editor of Debating "Empire" and (with Benedict Anderson) Mapping the Nation. A member of the New Left Review editorial board, he teaches Contemporary Theory at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Content
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. The Young Carl Schmitt
- 2. Dictatorship Sovereign and Commissarial
- 3. The State of Emergency
- 4. Catholicism and Nationalism in Modern Politics
- 5. The Legitimation Crisis of Parliament
- 6. Status Quo and Peace
- 7. Rechtsstaat and Democracy
- 8. The Crisis of Political Reason
- 9. The Elites: Between Pluralism and Fascism
- 10. Presidential Rule and Judicial Activism
- 11. Legality and Legitimacy
- 12. Trial and Endgame
- 13. The National Socialist Revolution
- 14. The Revolution in Legal Thought
- 15. Flight Forward and Retreat
- 16. The Leviathan Myth
- 17. Diaspora, Utopia, Katechon
- 18. The International Order and World War
- 19. The Law of the Earth
- 20. Finis Germania
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
