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July 11, 2011 1 comments

Remembering Carl Schmitt:
July 11, 1888–April 7, 1985

Greg Johnson

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Carl Schmitt was born on July 11, 1888 in Plettenberg, Westphalia, Germany–where he died on April 7, 1985, at the age of 96. The son of a Roman Catholic small businessman, Carl Schmitt studied law in Berlin, Munich, and Strasbourg, graduating and taking his state exams in Strasbourg in 1915. In 1916, he earned his habilitation in Strasbourg, qualifying him to be a law professor. He taught at business schools and universities in Munich, Greifswald, Bonn, Berlin, and Cologne.

During the Third Reich, Schmitt joined the NSDAP (on May 1, 1933). He was appointed Prussian State Counselor and President of the Union of National Socialist Jurists. He particularly enjoyed the confidence and patronage of Hermann Göring, but from 1936 on was regarded as ideologically unsound by some within the SS. In 1945, he was arrested and interned for more than a year by American occupiers. Schmitt refused “de-Nazification” and retired to the village of his birth where he continued to write, receive visitors, and quietly maintain his political contacts until the end of his life. Among his many visitors were Ernst Jünger, Alexandre Kojève, Guillaume Faye, and Robert Steuckers.

Schmitt is now widely recognized as one of the great anti-liberal political and legal theorists, whose works are valued on the anti-liberal left as well as on the right. His books are steadily being translated into English. Available titles include:

  • Political Romanticism (1919, 1925), trans. Guy Oakes (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986).
  • Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty (1922, 1934), trans. George D. Schwab (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985).
  • Roman Catholicism and Political Form (1923), trans. G. L. Ulmen (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996).
  • Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (1923, 1926), trans. Ellen Kennedy (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1988).
  • The Idea of Representation: A Discussion (1923), trans. E. M. Codd (Washington, D.C.: Plutarch Press, 1988), reprint of The Necessity of Politics (1931).
  • The Concept of the Political (1927, 1932), trans. George D. Schwab (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996; expanded edition 2006, with an Introduction by Tracy B. Strong).
  • Constitutional Theory (1928), trans. Jeffrey Seitzer (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007).
  • Four Articles, 1931–1938, trans. Simona Draghici (Washington, D.C.: Plutarch Press, 1999).
  • Legality and Legitimacy (1932), trans. Jeffrey Seitzer (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004).
  • On the Three Types of Juristic Thought (1934), trans. Joseph Bendersky (Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2004).
  • The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol (Heritage of Sociology) (1938), trans. George D. Schwab & Erna Hilfstein (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996).
  • The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of Jus Publicum Europaeum (1950), trans. G. L. Ulmen (New York: Telos Press, 2003).
  • Land and Sea (1954), trans. Simona Draghici (Washington, D.C.: Plutarch Press, 1997).
  • Hamlet or Hecuba: The Intrusion of the Time into the Play (1956), trans. David Pan and Jennifer R. Rust (New York: Telos Press, 2009).
  • Theory of the Partisan: Intermediate Commentary on the Concept of the Political (1963, 1975), trans. G. L. Ulmen (New York: Telos Press, 2007).
  • Political Theology II: The Myth of the Closure of any Political Theology (1970), trans. Michael Hoelzel and Graham Ward (Malden, Mass.: Polity Press, 2008).
  • The Tyranny of Values (1979), trans. Simona Draghici (Washington, D.C.: Plutarch Press, 1996).

Schmitt is one of the most significant political theorists for the North American New Right, and one measure of the embryonic state of our movement is that we are just beginning to come to grips with him. Counter-Currents/North American New Right has published two works by Schmitt online:

  • Land and Sea
  • “Total Enemy, Total State, and Total War,” an essay from Four Articles, 1931–1938

We have also published three studies of Schmitt:

  • “The Lesson of Carl Schmitt,” by Guillaume Faye and Robert Steuckers
  • “Reflections on Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political,” by Greg Johnson
  • “Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political,” by Michael O’Meara

In the coming years, we will considerably expand our coverage of Schmitt by commissioning studies of his various works as well as translations of literature by European New Right authors. All of this is contingent on our ability to raise the necessary funds, so please consider donating to our summer fund-raising campaign today.

 

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  1. White Republican says:
    July 11, 2011 at 9:18 pm

    Carl Schmitt’s Writings on War is scheduled for release later this month, while Dictatorship is scheduled for release in October. Both are published by Polity. I don’t know what has delayed the publication of Dictatorship, which was originally scheduled for release last year, but Writings on War looks like it should be released on schedule: the entry at Amazon includes advance reviews and various pages can be previewed. (Francophone readers might like to know that Krisis recently published Guerre discriminatoire et logique des grands espaces, which unites two lengthy articles by Schmitt.)

    Julien Freund might warrant attention at Counter-Currents as a student of Schmitt and a “fellow traveller” of the European New Right. I might get his magnum opus, L’essence du politique, later this year.

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