Volume 44, Number 8 · May 15, 1997
The Enemy of Liberalism
By Mark Lilla
BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The Concept of the Political
by Carl Schmitt, translated and introduced by George Schwab, with a new foreword by Tracy B. Strong
University of Chicago Press, 111 pp., $9.95 (paper)
The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol
by Carl Schmitt, translated by George Schwab, translated by Erna Hilfstein
Greenwood Press, 121 pp., $49.95
Roman Catholicism and Political Form
by Carl Schmitt, translated by G.L. Ulmen
Greenwood Press, 68 pp., $39.95
Glossarium: Aufzeichnungen der Jahre 1947-1951
by Carl Schmitt, edited by Eberhard Freiherr von Medem
Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 364 pp., 78DM
Staat, Grossraum, Nomos: Arbeiten aus den Jahren 1916-1969
by Carl Schmitt, edited by Günther Maschke
Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 668 pp., 198DM
Der Fall Carl Schmitt: Sein Aufstieg zum "Kronjuristen des Dritten Reiches"
by Andreas Koenen
Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 979 pp., 128DM
Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss: The Hidden Dialogue
by Heinrich Meier, translated by J. Harvey Lomax, foreword by Joseph Cropsey
University of Chicago Press, 136 pp., $19.95
Die Lehre Carl Schmitts: Vier Kapitel zur Unterscheidung Politischer Theologie und Politischer Philosophie
by Heinrich Meier
Stuttgart: Metzler Verlag, 267 pp., 38DM
Der Katechon: Zu Carl Schmitts fundamentalistischer Kritik der Zeit
by Günter Meuter
Berlin: Duncker und Humblot, 553 pp., 128DM
Carl Schmitt: Eine Biographie
by Paul Noack
Berlin: Propyläen, 360 pp., 26.90DM
Die eigentlich katholische Verschärfung: Konfession, Theologie und Politik im Werk Carl Schmitts
edited by Bernd Wacker
Munich: Fink Verlag, 324 pp., 68DM
Carl Schmitt was born in the small Westphalian town of Plettenberg and died there in 1985 at the age of ninety-six. Virtually unknown in America, he is today considered in many European countries, especially in Germany, to be one of the most significant political theorists of the century. His books, the most important of which were written during the Weimar years, remain in print in many languages and are the subject of intense scholarly debate. Not even increased awareness of the circumstances surrounding Schmitt's active collaboration with the Nazi regime has dampened interest in the man and his writings.
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