About Carl Schmitt
German jurist and political theorist (1888–1985), the most provocative and controversial constitutional thinker of the 20th century. Schmitt joined the Nazi Party in 1933 and served as the official jurist of the Third Reich before being marginalized by SS rivals in 1936. He was never prosecuted for his collaboration. His theoretical work — on sovereignty, political theology, the exception, and the friend-enemy distinction — continues to be read widely because it offers the sharpest available critique of liberal assumptions about law, neutrality, and the possibility of depoliticised governance.
Books by Carl Schmitt
Political Theology
Important for understanding sovereignty, emergency power, and the limits of legal order.
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A dangerous but important critique of liberal neutrality and a stark theory of politics as friend-enemy distinction.
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