Showing posts with label Topics: Society: Politics: Schmitt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Topics: Society: Politics: Schmitt. Show all posts

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Vinx, Lars. "Carl Schmitt." STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY August 7, 2010.

Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) was a conservative German legal, constitutional, and political theorist. Schmitt is often considered to be one of the most important critics of liberalism, parliamentary democracy, and liberal cosmopolitanism. But the value and significance of Schmitt's work is subject to controversy, mainly due to his intellectual support for and active involvement with National Socialism. . . .

Read the rest here: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schmitt/.

Monday, April 28, 2008

Pan, David, ed. CULTURE AND POLITICS IN CARL SCHMITT. TELOS 142 (2008).

Papers include:
  • Benjamin Arditi "On the Political: Schmitt contra Schmitt." 7-28. [Excerpt] [PDF]
  • Michael Marder "Carl Schmitt's 'Cosmopolitan Restaurant': Culture, Multiculturalism, and Complexio Oppositorum." 29-47. [Excerpt] [PDF]
  • David Pan "Carl Schmitt on Culture and Violence in the Political Decision." 49-72. [Excerpt] [PDF]
  • Johannes Türk "The Intrusion: Carl Schmitt's Non-Mimetic Logic of Art." 73-89. [Excerpt] [PDF]
  • Hans Sluga "The Pluralism of the Political: from Carl Schmitt to Hannah Arendt." 91-109. [Excerpt] [PDF]
  • Christian J. Emden "Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt, and the Limits of Liberalism." 110-134. [Excerpt] [PDF]
  • Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky "Nothing is Political, Everything Can Be Politicized: On the Concept of the Political in Michel Foucault and Carl Schmitt." 135-161. [Excerpt] [PDF]
  • Theo W. A. de Wit Scum of the Earth: Alain Finkielkraut on the Political Risks of a Humanism without Transcendence Telos 142 (Spring 2008): 163-183. [Excerpt] [PDF]
Dowload the entire issue here: http://journal.telospress.com/content/vol2008/issue142/index.dtl.