Carl Schmitt and the Jews - The ""Jewish Question, "" the Holocaust, and German Legal Theory (Hardcover)

German jurist and legal theorist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) significantly influenced Western political and legal thinking in the last century, yet his life and work have also stirred considerable controversy. While his ideas have been used and diffused by prominent philosophers on both the left and the right, such as Jurgen Habermas and Leo Strauss, his Nazi-era past, especially his active efforts to remove Jewish influence from German law, has cast a cloud over his life and oeuvre. Still, his many supporters have generally been successful in claiming that Schmitt's was an ""antisemitism of opportunity,"" a temporary affectation to gain favor with the Nazis. In ""Carl Schmitt and the Jews"", available in English for the first time, historian Raphael Gross vigorously repudiates this ""opportunism thesis."" Through a reading of Schmitt's corpus, some of which became available only after his death, Gross highlights the importance of the ""Jewish Question"" on the breadth of Schmitt's work. According to Gross, Schmitt's antisemitism was at the core of his work - before, during, and after the Nazi era. His influential polarities of ""friend and foe,"" ""law and nomos,"" ""behemoth and Leviathan,"" and ""ketechon and Antichrist"" emerge from a conceptual template in which ""the Jew"" is defined as adversary, undermining the Christian order with secularization. The presence of this template at the heart of Schmitt's work, Gross contends, calls for a major reassessment of Schmitt's role within contemporary cultural and legal theory.

General

Imprint:	University of Wisconsin Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas
Release date:	February 2007
First published:	July 2007
Authors:	Raphael Gross
Translators:	Joel Golb
Foreword by:	Peter C. Caldwell
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	344
ISBN-13:	978-0-299-22240-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies Promotions
LSN:	0-299-22240-3
Barcode:	9780299222406

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