Carl Schmitt
Born
in Plettenberg, Germany
July 11, 1888
Died
April 07, 1985
Website
Genre
Influences
The Concept of the Political
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55 editions
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1927
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Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
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35 editions
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1922
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Terra e mare. Una riflessione sulla storia del mondo
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26 editions
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published
1942
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Theory of the Partisan: Intermediate Commentary on the Concept of the Political
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22 editions
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1962
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Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy
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12 editions
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published
1923
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The Nomos of the Earth: In the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum
27 editions
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published
1950
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The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol
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17 editions
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published
1938
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Political Romanticism
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29 editions
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published
1919
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Legality and Legitimacy
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23 editions
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published
1933
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Dictatorship
28 editions
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published
2000
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“The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.”
― Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
― Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty
“The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of economic imperialism. Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhon’s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a term probably has certain incalculable effects, such as denying the enemy the quality of being human and declaring him to be an outlaw of humanity; and a war can thereby be driven to the most extreme inhumanity.”
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