...Christopher Pye Focusing on Shakespeare's Winter's Tale , the essay counters Carl Schmitt's claim that Absolutism represents an ideal conjunction of the monarch's creative and legislative acts. It argues that early modern theater conveys the problematic character of the relation between law...

...William Rasch 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. William Rasch Introduction: Carl Schmitt and the New World Order In the early 1990s, after...

...Brett Levinson 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Brett Levinson The Coming Nomos; or, The Decline of Other Orders in Schmitt No reader of Carl Schmitt’s The Nomos of the Earth can fail to sense a division within the work...

...Srinivas Aravamudan 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Srinivas Aravamudan Carl Schmitt’s The Nomos of the Earth: Four Corollaries First Corollary: Myth is the driving force behind the Schmittian conception that there is a nomos...

...Chantal Mouffe 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Chantal Mouffe Schmitt’s Vision of a Multipolar World Order I want to bring to the fore the importance of the thought of Carl Schmitt for grasping the situation...

...José Luis Villacañas Berlanga 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Translated by Rachel Price José Luis Villacañas Berlanga The Nomos of the Earth and the Scandal of Kant: Commentaries on Carl Schmitt’s Book This is the reality of our spiritual...

...Bruno Bosteels 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Bruno Bosteels The Obscure Subject: Sovereignty and Geopolitics in Carl Schmitt’s The Nomos of the Earth Writing with the bold pathos that no doubt comes from his experience...

...Janell Watson 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Janell Watson Oil Wars, or Extrastate Conflict ‘‘beyond the Line Schmitt’s Nomos, Deleuze’s War Machine, and the New Order of the Earth There are at least three ways to read the U.S.-Iraq...

...Teresa M. Vilarós 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Teresa M. Vilarós The Spirit of the Beehive: On Carl Schmitt’s ‘‘The New Nomos of the Earth’’ Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, Every bee knows the formula of its...

...Banu Bargu This essay argues that Jodi Dean’s The Communist Horizon can be read as a radical left-Schmittian intervention. The essay shows the basic points of correspondence between Dean’s arguments and those of Carl Schmitt. Bargu examines how Dean adopts and mobilizes Schmitt’s most...

...Hans A. Schmitt Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 Bismarck s Unfinished Empire Hans A. Schmitt For more than a century every generation grown to adulthood in the Western world has debated the virtues and weaknesses of Otto von Bismarck. In the course of this persistent dialogue...

...Hans A. Schmitt Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 Perspective: A Note on Historical Judgments Hans A. Schmitt I Uneasy lies the head that recapitulates yesterday s history. Par­ ticularly if it is the head of a professional historian. For his effort is subject to a number...

.... Mario Tronti's theory of the autonomy of the political, which took Carl Schmitt as a fundamental point of reference, is briefly discussed and presented as a possible polemical target of Foucault. His critique of the shift to the political is presented as a symptom of his enduring fidelity to the legacy...

...Kenneth Surin 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Kenneth Surin World Ordering Carl Schmitt’s The Nomos of the Earth,among many other things, represents a rewriting, or unwriting, of Giambattista Vico’s Nouvo...

...Ranjana Khanna 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Ranjana Khanna On Asylum and Genealogy Carl Schmitt mentions ‘‘asylum’’ in The Nomos of the Earth only in passing. His focus is the ‘‘ter- restrial fundament...

... were such that Carl Schmitt’s crucial distinction in The Nomos of the Earth between ‘‘just’’ and ‘‘unjust’’ enemies—those combat- ants he labels ‘‘belligerents’’ and ‘‘criminalscould not, in that highly con- tested political moment, be sustained. The national trauma, as has subsequently become...

.... I must also acknowledge that my familiarity with Schmitt’s oeuvre is limited, so I will address myself solely to the argumentation of The Nomos 1 of the Earth. This is a significant limitation...

...Peter Hallward 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Peter Hallward Beyond Salvage Carl Schmitt wrote most of The Nomos of the Earth toward the end of World War II. He blames the unprecedented brutality...

...Fredric Jameson 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Fredric Jameson Notes on the Nomos I The astonishing contemporaneity of Carl Schmitt’s The Nomos of the Earth can be regis- tered...

... of the State is a secularized theological concept. —Carl Schmitt, Political Theology Carl Schmitt’s The Nomos of the Earth ends with the following visionary affirmation from its author regarding not just...