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Enduring Enmity: The Story of Otto Kirchheimer and Carl Schmitt
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Abstract To date, the relationship between Otto Kirchheimer and Carl Schmitt has invariably been described as friendly, despite their political differences. Kirchheimer has even beeen attributed the role of the godfather of today's left-Schmittianism. With reference to previously unknown archival materials, ... view more
To date, the relationship between Otto Kirchheimer and Carl Schmitt has invariably been described as friendly, despite their political differences. Kirchheimer has even beeen attributed the role of the godfather of today's left-Schmittianism. With reference to previously unknown archival materials, conversations with personal contacts, and through a new reading of the theoretical works of both authors, including an analysis of the Nazi vocabulary used by Schmitt, Hubertus Buchstein exposes this view as a politically motivated legend. Buchstein claims that the best way to characterize their relationship from their first meeting in Bonn in 1926 up until Kirchheimer's death in 1965 is as enduring enmity - in a political, a theoretical, and even a personal sense.... view less
Keywords
Weimar Republic (Germany, 1918-33); antisemitism; Nazism; political theory; political science; political ideology; politics; science; history of science
Classification
General History
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Document language
English
Publication Year
2024
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
575 p.
Series
Political Science, 140
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839464700
ISSN
2702-9069
ISBN
978-3-8394-6470-0
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0