A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought

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Offering a concise account of Schmitt's life and career along with discussions of his key concepts, Muller explains why interest in the political theorist continues. He analyzes Schmitt's post-1945 writings on international order, partisanship, and terror. He explores in detail the responses of liberal thinkers to Schmitt's challenging legacy and the highly ingenious (and often problematic) defenses of liberalism they devised. Muller offers a range of insights into the liberalization of political thinking in ...
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Overview

Offering a concise account of Schmitt's life and career along with discussions of his key concepts, Muller explains why interest in the political theorist continues. He analyzes Schmitt's post-1945 writings on international order, partisanship, and terror. He explores in detail the responses of liberal thinkers to Schmitt's challenging legacy and the highly ingenious (and often problematic) defenses of liberalism they devised. Muller offers a range of insights into the liberalization of political thinking in post-authoritarian societies and the persistent vulnerabilities and blind spots of certain strands of Western liberalism. Finally, he also assesses the current uses of Schmitt's thought in debates on globalization and the quest for a liberal world order.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780300099324
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publication date: 7/11/2003
  • Pages: 304
  • Product dimensions: 5.60 (w) x 8.60 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
Pt. 1 A German Public Lawyer in the Twentieth Century 15
Pt. 2 The Afterlife: The Uses and Abuses of Antiliberalism 49
Masks and Mirrors 51
In Search of Stability I: Schmittianism in German Constitutional
Jurisprudence 63
In Search of Stability II: Industrial Society, Technocracy and the Extinction of Political Will 76
Visions of Global Order: Schmitt, Aron and the Civil Servant of the World Spirit 87
Schmitt and his Historians: Philosophies of History, the Global Civil War - and Stranded Objects 104
Melancholy Modernism: The Ritter School 116
Don Carlos in Iberia: The 'New States' and the Integrity of Old Europe 133
The Partisan in the Landscape of Treason: Schmitt's Theory of Guerilla Warfare - and its Partisans 144
Dangerous Labyrinths: Political Theology and the Legitimacy of the Liberal Age 156
Dangerous Liaisons: Schmitt, the New Left and the Limits of Liberalism 169
Terror, States of Emergency and the Liberal Secessions 181
The Death (and Strange Rebirth) of Carl Schmitt 194
Integral Europe and the Rise of the European New Right(s) 207
Pt. 3 Schmitt's Globalization: Drawing the Lines 219
Afterword 245
Notes 251
Index 288
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