Carl Schmitt: A Biography

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Abbreviations Translator s Preface A White Raven: The Strange Life of the German State Theorist Carl Schmitt Part One That false and arrogant idea I am Schmitt s Rise in the Wilhelminian Era 1. An Obscure Young Man from a Modest Background 2. The Law of Practice 3. Apotheosis of the Poet, Rant against Literary Figures: the Untimely Poet and the Received Wisdom of the Educated 4. On the Eve of the Great War: State, Church and Individual as Points of Reference 5. Dusseldorf: Living in a State of Exception 6. World War and Defeatism: Carl Schmitt in Munich 7. Strasbourg, the State of Siege and a Decision in Favour of Catholicism 8. Political Romanticists 1815/1919 Part 2 Beyond Bourgeois Existence Schmitt s Life and Work during the Weimar Republic 1. A Permanent Position? The Handelshochschule in Munich 2. A Faithful Gypsy in Greifswald 3. Arrival in Bonn? Schmitt s Turn towards the Catholic Church 4. Schmitt as a Teacher in Bonn 5. From Status Quo to Democratic Myth 6. The Yield of the Bonn Years: 7. From Ice Floe to Ice Floe : Signals in the Berlin Maelstrom 8. Reconstructing the Strong State 9. Within the Journalistic Circles of Weimar s Last Days 10. Carl Schmitt as an Actor During the Rule by Presidential Decree Part Three In The Belly of the Leviathan: Schmitt s Involvement in National Socialism 1. After 30 January 1933 2. Schmitt s Resistible Rise to the Position of Crown Jurist 3. The Year of Construction ? Beginning and End of the Juridico-Institutional Provision of Meaning 4. Anti-Semitic Provision of Meaning 5. A New Turn with Hobbes? Meaning and Failure of Schmitt s Commitment to National Socialism 6. The Right to Power? Grossraum Order and Empire Formation 7. The Captain held Hostage? Carl Schmitt s Farewell to the Reich 8. Last Writings under National Socialism Part Four One man remains Schmitt s Slow Retreat after 1945 1. Detention and Asylum 2. From Benito Cereno to Hamlet: The Comeback of the Intellectual? 3. Private Seminars in Plettenberg: Schmitt s Renewed Influence on Pupils in the Federal Republic 4. The Partisan in Conversation 5. Past Eighty: A Look Back to Old Questions Appendix Afterword Chronology Bibliography Endnotes Acknowledgments

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