CONCLUSION
Journal: Edinburgh University Press eBooks
Year: 2020

Is Schmitt relevant to understanding the rise of an authoritarian regime in contemporary Russia, and its wider impact on global politics?Some scholars argue that using Schmitt, a proven anti-Semite and a defender of the Nazi regime, to illuminate the present is both misleading and inappropriate.Sitze, for example, writes of 'the illusion that Schmittian thought is adequate for the task of naming our experience today' (Sitze 2010: 66).For Sitze, our aim should be 'to read Carl Schmitt so complete