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Carl Schmitt (/ ʃ m ɪ t /; 11 July 1888 – 7 April 1985) was a German jurist, political theorist, geopolitician and prominent member of the Nazi Party. Born in Plettenberg in 1888, Schmitt studied law in Berlin , Munich , and Strasbourg .
Aug 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.
May 7, 2024 · Carl Schmitt was a German conservative jurist and political theorist, best known for his critique of liberalism, his definition of politics as based on the distinction between friends and enemies, and his overt support of Nazism.
May 25, 2016 · Carl Schmitt, a brilliant jurist and political philosopher, both predicted the collapse of the Weimar Republic, and was – for a short time – a passionate defender of Hitler’s regime. He...
Dec 16, 2013 · This chapter provides a detailed introduction to the thought of Carl Schmitt that incorporates insights from law, the social sciences, and the humanities. It is also an intervention in its own right, seeking to decenter the study of this most hyped thinker of the twentieth century by advancing two interconnected arguments.
Carl Schmitt is one of the most widely read and influential German thinkers of the twentieth century. His fundamental works on friend and enemy, legality and legitimacy, dictatorship, political theology and the concept of the political are read today with great interest by everyone from conservative Catholic theologians to radical political ...
Jun 5, 2012 · Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) was perhaps the leading jurist during the Weimar Republic (1919–33). Born the son of a Catholic Westphalian businessman, he was educated as a lawyer and legal theorist at several universities, taking his habilitation eventually in Strasbourg (then part of Germany) in 1915.
Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) was a leading German political and legal theorist. Among his many books are The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy , Political Romanticism , The Concept of the Political , Political Theology , and Legality and Legitimacy , which is also published by Duke University Press.
Dec 16, 2023 · Carl Schmitt (1888–1985). German jurist. He always qualified himself as a jurist, but the radicality and the innovative character of his scientific performance have made him a reference point for the twentieth century debates not only on public, constitutional and international law, but also for political science, and for the history of ...
Writing a short biography of Carl Schmitt is a difficult task because of the many references, ambiguities and controversial interpretations of Schmitt’s attitude during the Nazi era and in post-war Germany.
