... Chapter 1 is a systematic analysis of Schmitt’s writings on the State. Galli’s reading reconstructs the internal logic of Schmitt’s theories of the State (clarifying concepts of liberalism, democracy, and constitutional theory along the way) while also externally contextualizing those theories...

... The central aim of chapter 3 is to distinguish Schmitt’s genealogy of the political from Machiavelli’s conceptualization of the origin of the modern State. By reconstructing Schmitt’s various positions on Machiavelli, Galli shows that Machiavelli is neither influential for the development of...

... Chapter 4 takes up the question of Schmitt’s relation with Leo Strauss in a highly original manner. Whereas other authors analyze the relations between Schmitt and Strauss on historical and even biographical grounds, Galli compares them on a strictly immanent and theoretical basis, with...

... Focusing on Schmitt’s writings on international law, chapter 5 poses the question of whether Schmitt’s analyses of the partisan and of the Cold War are sufficient for grasping the dynamics of an emergent “global age” constituted primarily by “terrorism” and its suppression. After a detailed...

... Adam Sitze’s introduction reviews Anglophone scholarship on Carl Schmitt and clarifies Carlo Galli’s contribution to that scholarship: Galli performs an “immanent critique” of Schmitt’s oeuvre that is until now lacking in English. Sitze then shows how Galli’s systematic reconstruction of...

... Introduction Why Carl Schmitt? David Dyzenhaus The surge of interest among Anglo-American scholars in Weimar politi• cal and legal theory is easily explained. In the developed democracies of the West, the role of the state in public life-indeed, the very future of the state...

... From Legitimacy to Dictatorship-and Back Again Leo Strauss's Critique of the Anti-Liberalism of Carl Schmitt Robert Howse Introduction The encounter between Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss remains a source of fascination and polemics for the friends and enemies of both...

... Hostis Not Inimicus Toward a Theory of the Public in the Work of Carl Schmitt Ellen Kennedy Der Krieg ist durchaus nicht Ziel und Zweck oder gar Inhalt der Politik, wohl aber ist er die als reale Moglichkeit immer vorhandene Voraussetzung, die das menschliche Handeln und...

... Carl Schmitt and the Paradox of Liberal Democracy Chantal Mouffe In his introduction to the paperback edition of Political Liberalism, John Rawls, referring to Carl Schmitt's critique of parliamentary democracy, suggests that the fall of Weimar's constitutional regime...

...- I- 0 ~ Legal Theory and Politics Carl Schmitt on Sovereignty and Constituent Power Renata Cristi Schmitt's Verfassungslehre stands as perhaps the most systematic and least circumstantial of his works. While his production is marked, on the whole, by an...

... The Dilemmas of Dictatorship Carl Schmitt and Constitutional Emergency Powers John P. McCormick Introduction The first line of Carl Schmitt's Political Theology is perhaps the most famous sentence-certainly one of the most infamous-in German political theory...

... Revolutions and Constitutions Hannah Arendt's Challenge to Carl Schmitt William E. Scheuerman No two names better recall the polarized character of political life in mid-century Europe than Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt. Like so many of his peers in the Weimar...

... Chapter 2 does for Schmitt’s writings on political theology what chapter 1 did for his writings on the State. As in chapter 1, Galli’s reading reconstructs the internal logic of Schmitt’s theories of political theology (clarifying concepts of secularization, decisionism, and sovereignty along...