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...Bruce Rosenstock Shortly before his death, Jacob Taubes described his intellectual engagement with Carl Schmitt, beginning in the early 1950s, as one of “liebender Streit” (loving strife). This article explicates Taubes's “loving strife” with Schmitt through the lens of what Taubes called...

...Neil Levi New German Critique, Inc. 2007 Carl Schmitt and the Question of the Aesthetic Neil Levi More than twenty years after his death, the works of the German jurist and political thinker Carl Schmitt seem more alive than ever...

...György Geréby The analysis discusses the earliest phase of the debate on political theology between Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) and his former friend, the church historian and theologian Erik Peterson (1890-1960). In the 1930s Peterson challenged Schmitt's central tenet, the possibility...

...? The debate between Carl Schmitt and Hans Blumenberg concerning the conceptual status of secularization as an explanatory category for the emergence of modernity provides us with a paradigmatic case that sheds light on those questions. With the recent publication of the correspondence between Schmitt...

...Ville Suuronen Drawing on a large array of less-known materials, this article offers a new comparison of Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt by focusing on their opposing understandings of National Socialism as a novel political ideology. While Schmitt’s Nazi writings theorize a new kind of racial...

...André Fischer This article revisits the intersection of myth and political theology through readings of relevant texts by Carl Schmitt, Ernst Cassirer, and Hans Blumenberg. At stake is the question of whether myth can inform a concept of political polytheism that avoids the absolutist threat...

... for determining the linguistic conditions of political theology. He demonstrates the curse's ineluctable role in the theopolitical programs of Carl Schmitt, Martin Buber, and Erik Peterson and argues that the complications of secularization—famously debated between Schmitt and Hans Blumenberg—are best understood...

... Schmitt (and on Müller's own appropriations of Walter Benjamin and Antonin Artaud), however, this article argues that for Müller the state of exception had become the norm. The emergency is the everyday. Mommsen's Block therefore narrates the author's dilemma, faced with a subject he finds all...

... Schmitt (and is in any event now usefully read in such a way). The essay ends by examining how Arendt might reply to currently influential challengers of a secular politics. New German Critique, Inc. 2008 Hannah Arendt on the Secular Samuel Moyn...

...Nitzan Lebovic This article addresses the strange reappearance of Carl Schmitt in the context of German Jewish thought after 1940. The focus is on the role political theology played in the work of Martin Buber, Hugo Bergman, and Jacob Taubes, three men who met in Jerusalem during the late 1940s...

... of culture because they serve as a universal, neutral medium in contrast to particular religious or ideological worldviews and most especially religious “fundamentalism” is questioned through a discussion of texts by Günter Grass, Jürgen Habermas, Martti Koskenniemi, Carl Schmitt, and Tzvetan Todorov...

...Adi Armon During the Weimar years Leo Strauss was intellectually and spiritually close to streams of thought that were averse to liberalism, enlightenment, and democracy. Specifically, he was mostly influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Carl Schmitt. The political philosophy...

... for religious myths.”2 Gray notes that destruc- tive images of the apocalypse or prophecy imply an urgent need for radical change through an extreme shift in political language, as demonstrated by the pioneer of modern political theology, Carl Schmitt.3 Writing on American 1. Mark Lilla...

... Carl Schmitt Jürgen Habermas political theory reality Jürgen Habermas’s two-volume This, Too, a History of Philosophy (2019) offers a grand vista over the history of “post-metaphysical thought.” The central distinction between its two main lineages is the weight each accords historical...

... of others. More specifi cally, it was prompted in part by the revival of interest in the political philosopher Leo Strauss and in the Ger- man scholar of jurisprudence (and onetime Nazi) Carl Schmitt. Schmitt popu- larized the term political theology in a book of that name in 1922. It elicited...

... . “Begriffssoziologie, Begriffsgeschichte, Begriffspolitik: Zur Form der Ideengeschichtsschreibung nach Carl Schmitt und Reinhart Koselleck.” In Politische Ideengeschichtsschreibung im 20. Jahrhundert: Konzepte und Kritik , edited by Bluhm Harald Gebhardt Jürgen , 31 – 50 . Baden-Baden : Nomos...

... in interwar Germany, including academics like the sociologist Hans Freyer or the legal scholar Carl Schmitt, aspiring politicians such as the lawyer and political publicist Edgar Julius Jung, and private intellectuals like Oswald Spengler or Arthur Moeller van den Bruck. 2 The thinkers of this tradition...

..., did Weber’s concept of charisma awaken more enthusiasm among conservative intellectuals? The constitutional jurist Carl Schmitt, arguably the most influential conservative political thinker in Weimar Germany, would be a plausible candidate. Schmitt had taken classes with Weber...

... University Press . Taubes Jacob . 2013 . To Carl Schmitt: Letters and Reflections , translated by Tribe Keith . New York : Columbia University Press . Tishby Isaiah . 1967 . “ The Messianic Idea and Messianic Trends in the Growth of Hassidism .” Zion , no. 32 : 1 – 45...

... Schmitt .” Cultural Critique , no. 69 ( 2008 ): 22 – 51 . Howes Seth . “ We Can Come Very Close to Them: Solidarity and the Struggle for Liberation in The Aesthetics of Resistance .” New German Critique , no. 147 ( 2022 ): 43 – 63 . Jünger Ernst . “ Der Gordische Knoten...