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Ex Captivitate Salus - Experiences, 1945-47 (Paperback)
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Ex Captivitate Salus - Experiences, 1945-47 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R512
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When Germany was defeated in 1945, both the Russians and the
Americans undertook mass internments in the territories they
occupied. The Americans called their approach 'automatic arrest'.
Carl Schmitt, although not belonging to the circles subject to
automatic arrest, was held in one of these camps in the years
1945-46, and then, in March 1947, in the prison of the
international tribunal in Nuremberg, as witness and 'possible
defendant'. A formal charge was never brought against him.
Schmitt's way of coping in the years of isolation was to write this
book, clarifying his own position on certain fundamental questions.
In Ex Captivitate Salus, or Deliverance from Captivity, Schmitt
considers a range of issues relating to history and political
theory as well as recent events, including the Nazi defeat and the
new emerging Cold War. Schmitt often urged his readers to view the
book as though it were a series of letters personally directed to
each of them. Hence there is a decidedly personal dimension to the
text as Schmitt expresses his thoughts on his own career trajectory
with some pathos, at the same time he is at pains to emphasise that
'this is not romantic or heroic prison literature'. This reflective
work sheds new light on Schmitt's thought and personal situation at
the beginning of a period of exile from public life that only ended
with his death in 1985. It will be of great value to the many
students and scholars in political theory and law who continue to
study and appreciate this seminal theorist of the 20th century.
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