Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-991693-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 874 Seiten, Format (B × H): 179 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1491 g

The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt collects thirty original chapters on the diverse oeuvre of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) was a German theorist whose anti-liberalism continues to inspire scholars and practitioners on both the Left and the Right. Despite Schmitt's rabid antisemitism and partisan legal practice in Nazi Germany, the appeal of his trenchant critiques of, among other things, aestheticism, representative democracy, and international law as well as of his theoretical justifications of dictatorship and rule by exception is undiminished. Uniquely located at the intersection of law, the social sciences, and the humanities, this volume brings together sophisticated yet accessible interpretations of Schmitt's sprawling thought and complicated biography. The contributors hail from diverse disciplines, including art, law, literature, philosophy, political science, and history. In addition to opening up exciting new avenues of research, The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt provides the intellectual foundations for an improved understanding of the political, legal, and cultural thought of this most infamous of German theorists. A substantial introduction places the trinity of Schmitt's thought in a broad context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meierhenrich, Jens

Simons, Oliver

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Contributors

- A Chronology of Carl Schmitt's Life

- A List of Carl Schmitt's Writings

- Part I-Introduction

- 1 "A Fanatic of Order in an Epoch of Confusing Turmoil":

- The Political, Legal, and Cultural Thought of Carl Schmitt Jens Meierhenrich and

- Oliver Simons

- Part II-the lives of Carl Schmitt

- 2 "Catholic Layman of German Nationality and

- Citizenship"? Carl Schmitt and the Religiosity of Life Reinhard Mehring

- 3 The "True Enemy": Antisemitism in Carl Schmitt's Life

- and Thought Raphael Gross

- 4 Schmitt's Diaries Joseph W. Bendersky

- 5 Carl Schmitt in Plettenberg Christian Linder

- Part III-the political thought of Carl schmitt

- 6 Fearing the Disorder of Things: The Development of

- Carl Schmitt's Institutional Theory, 1919-1938 Jens Meierhenrich

- 7 Carl Schmitt's Political Theory of Dictatorship Duncan Kelly

- 8 The Political Theology of Carl Schmitt Miguel Vatter

- 9 Teaching in Vain: Carl Schmitt, Thomas

- Hobbes, and the Theory of the Sovereign State John P. McCormick

- 10 Concepts of the Political in Twentieth-Century

- European Thought Samuel Moyn

- 11 Carl Schmitt's Defense of Democracy William Rasch

- 12 Same/Other versus Friend/Enemy:

- Levinas contra Schmitt Aryeh Botwinick

- 13 Carl Schmitt's Concepts of War: A Categorical Failure Benno Teschke

- 14 Carl Schmitt's Concept of History Matthias Lievens

- 15 What's "Left" in Schmitt? From Aversion to

- Appropriation in Contemporary Political Theory Matthew G. Specter

- Part IV-the legal thought of Carl Schmitt

- 16 A Jurist Confronting Himself: Carl Schmitt's

- Jurisprudential Thought Giorgio Agamben

- 17 Carl Schmitt and the Weimar Constitution Ulrich K. Preuss

- 18 The Concept of the Rule-of-Law State in

- Carl Schmitt's Verfassungslehre David Dyzenhaus

- 19 Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt: Growing Discord,

- Culminating in the "Guardian" Controversy

- of 1931 Stanley L. Paulson

- 20 States of Emergency William E. Scheuerman

- 21 Politonomy Martin Loughlin

- 22 Carl Schmitt and International Law Martti Koskenniemi

- 23 Demystifying Schmitt Eric A. Posner and

- Adrian Vermeule

- Part V-the cultural thought of carl schmitt

- 24 Carl Schmitt and Modernity Friedrich Balke

- 25 Is "the Political" a Romantic Concept? Novalis's Faith and Love

- or The King and Queen with Reference to Carl Schmitt Rüdiger Campe

- 26 Walter Benjamin's Esteem for Carl Schmitt Horst Bredekamp

- 27 Legitimacy of the Modern Age? Hans Blumenberg and

- Carl Schmitt Alexander Schmitz

- 28 Tragedy as Exception in Carl Schmitt's

- Hamlet or Hecuba David Pan

- 29 At the Limits of Rhetoric: Authority, Commonplace,

- and the Role of Literature in Carl Schmitt Johannes Türk

- 30 Carl Schmitt's Spatial Rhetoric Oliver Simons

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Oliver Simons is Associate Professor of Germanic Languages, Columbia University.

Jens Meierhenrich is Associate Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics.