Carl Schmitt and the Jews
Subtitle: The ""Jewish Question," the Holocaust, and German Legal Theory (George L. Mosse Series)
Contributors: Peter C. Caldwell (Foreword); Joel Golb (Translator)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: July 2, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780299222406
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Jewish studies; Jurisprudence & General Issues; Political science & theory; History; Legal Reference / Law Profession; History: World; Europe - Germany; Holocaust; Legal History; Law / Legal History; Antisemitism; Germany; Political theology
Description: "In Carl Schmitt and the Jews, available in English for the first time, historian Raphael Gross vigorously repudiates "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 "Katechon 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."--BOOK JACKET.