The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (608 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 185984359X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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The writings of Carl Schmitt form what is arguably the most disconcerting, original, and yet still unfamiliar body of twentieth-century political thought. 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.. 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
Yet one cannot deny that people of diametrically opposite political allegiances have been influenced by Schmitt’s thought. Gopal Balakrishnan never forgets Schmitt’s hateful political choices. “Carl Schmitt is probably the major twentieth-century political theorist whose work remains internationally unknown. Here is a book which everyone interested in modern political theory should read.”—Michael Mann“The Enemy is one of the most brilliant and systematic
A member of the New Left Review editorial board, he teaches Contemporary Theory at the University of California, Santa Cruz. . Gopal Balakrishnan is the author of The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt, and editor of Debating “Empire” and (with Benedi
Review Guy said Great Book On A Fashionably Dangerous Attorney. This is the best all-around survey of and introduction to Carl Schmitt's thought. Balakrishnan does a good job of identifying each of the many, many "turns" in Schmitt's thought and situating each of them within the contemporaneous political developments in German-speaking Europe. There is some basic discussion of Schmitt's personal and religious life, as well as his political allegiances and the vicissitudes of his unstable status within the German establishment. This book is scholarly, clear and readable. If there's a problem with The Enemy, it is that Schmitt's thought does not lend its. "Carl Schmitt: The Political As Friend-Foe Distinction." according to New Age of Barbarism. _The Enemy_ provides an excellent and thorough introducion to the life and thinking of the German political philosopher and jurist Carl Schmitt. The book traces the developments in his thoughts from his earliest days as a Catholic schoolchild in the Rhineland to his eventual professorship in constitutional law and his involvement with the Third Reich regime and the subsequent developments in his thought after the Third Reich had fallen. Schmitt is normally considered to belong with the "conservative revolutionaries" such as Ernst Junger, Oswald Spengler, Martin Heidegger, and several other