Carl Schmitt · German jurist, political theorist and professor of law (1888–1985) · 1888–1985
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What Dominique Pagani says
Dominique Pagani presents Carl Schmitt as the most Nazi of the great jurists, linked to Heidegger, and as the representative of a new Nazi law grounded in nature12. He takes from him the hatred of the revolutionary tradition and the theories of the enemy and of war, and he credits him with creating the total state in 193234. Most of the passages come from a September 2020 session on Arendt and Heidegger. In that session he reads Schmitt mainly through Arendt. He recalls that The Concept of the Political was published by Aron and that Arendt shares some of its postulates without being identical to Schmitt5. In his view, Arendt takes her radical separation between the political and the social from Schmitt6. He also faults Arendt for exonerating Schmitt, even though she reads the Nazi edition of 1933, in which the political is defined as a pluriverse7. Finally, he likens Arendt's preface to the geopolitical plan of The Nomos of the Earth8.
Summary produced automatically from 8 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Who is this?
Carl Schmitt (11 July 1888 – 7 April 1985) was a German jurist and political philosopher. An authoritarian conservative, he was noted as a critic of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, and cosmopolitanism. In 1933, Schmitt joined the Nazi Party and used his legal and political theories to provide ideological justification for the regime. He held various positions on Nazi councils, including the Prussian State Council and the Academy for German Law, and served as president of the National Socialist Association of Legal Professionals. […]
Talks · 24 Sept 2020Arendt and Heidegger: the destruction of thought
