Carl Schmitt's magnum opus, "Constitutional Theory", was originally published in 1928 and has been in print in German ever since. This volume makes Schmitt's masterpiece of comparative constitutionalism available to English-language readers for the first time. Schmitt is considered by many to be one[...]

Carl Schmitt's political and legal theory has been subject to criticism by Chinese scholars. One of the criticisms is based on the judgment that there are uncomfortable similarities between Schmitt's and Mao's theories. Due to the similarities between Schmitt and Mao, many Chinese scholars argue tha[...]

What does Carl Schmitt have to offer to ongoing debates about sovereignty, globalization, spatiality, the nature of the political, and political theology? Can Schmitt's positions and concepts offer insights that might help us understand our concrete present-day situation? Works on Schmitt usually li[...]

What does Carl Schmitt have to offer to ongoing debates about sovereignty, globalization, spatiality, the nature of the political, and political theology? Can Schmitt's positions and concepts offer insights that might help us understand our concrete present-day situation? Works on Schmitt usually li[...]

Reorienting the Political examines the reception of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-speaking world. The legacies of both Schmitt, the German legal theorist and thinker who joined the Nazi party, and Strauss, the German-Jewish classicist and political philosopher who became famous after h[...]

Carl Schmitt's thought serves as a warning against the dangers of complacency entailed by triumphant liberalism. His conception of politics is a sharp challenge to those who believe that there is a third way between the left and right and that the increasing moralization of political discourse const[...]

Das Werk des Juristen und politischen Denkers Carl Schmitt, geboren am 11. Juli 1888 in Plettenberg / Westfalen und dort am 7. April 1985 gestorben, erstreckt sich uber fast sieben Jahrzehnte. Es umfasst mehr als 50 Bucher und fast 300 wesentliche Artikel. Das Interesse daran hat in den letzten Jahr[...]

Es vergeht kaum ein Monat, in dem nicht irgendwo auf dieser Welt ein neues Buch uber Carl Schmitt erscheint. Warum also noch ein Buch? Betrachtet man die Sekundarliteratur, fallt auf, dass es so gut wie keine Monographie gibt, die Schmitts rechtswissenschaftliches Werk juristisch wurdigt. Diese Luck[...]