Know your Schmitt: A godfather of truth and the spectre of Nazism

Review of International Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 323-328

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DOI: 10.1017/S026021059900323X     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Hans-Karl Pichler, 'The Godfathers of "Truth": Max Weber and Carl Schmitt in Morgenthau's Theory of Power Politics', Review of International Studies, 24 (1998), p. 200.
2. Ibid., pp. 185-200.
3. Mark Lilla, 'The Enemy of Liberalism', The New York Review of Books, 15 May 1997, p. 39. For an interesting interpretation of the revived interest in Schmitt and of some of the thorny questions implied see: Tracey Strong, 'Foreword: Dimensions of the New Debate around Carl Schmitt', in Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political, translated and with an introduction by Georg Schwab and with a foreword by Tracey B. Strong (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996[1932]), pp. ix-xxvi.
4. Mark Lilla, 'The Enemy of Liberalism', The New York Review of Books, 15 May 1997, p. 39. For an interesting interpretation of the revived interest in Schmitt and of some of the thorny questions implied see: Tracey Strong, 'Foreword: Dimensions of the New Debate around Carl Schmitt', in Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political, translated and with an introduction by Georg Schwab and with a foreword by Tracey B. Strong (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996[1932]), pp. ix-xxvi.
5. For example: Joseph W. Bendersky, Carl Schmitt. Theorist for the Reich (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983). Paul Piccone and G. L. Ulmen, 'Introduction to Carl Schmitt', Telos, 72 (1987). George Schwab, 'Introduction', in Carl Schmitt, Political Theology. Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty translated by George Schwab (Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1985 [1922]), pp. xi-xxvi.
6. For example: Joseph W. Bendersky, Carl Schmitt. Theorist for the Reich (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983). Paul Piccone and G. L. Ulmen, 'Introduction to Carl Schmitt', Telos, 72 (1987). George Schwab, 'Introduction', in Carl Schmitt, Political Theology. Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty translated by George Schwab (Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1985 [1922]), pp. xi-xxvi.
7. For example: Joseph W. Bendersky, Carl Schmitt. Theorist for the Reich (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983). Paul Piccone and G. L. Ulmen, 'Introduction to Carl Schmitt', Telos, 72 (1987). George Schwab, 'Introduction', in Carl Schmitt, Political Theology. Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty translated by George Schwab (Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1985 [1922]), pp. xi-xxvi.
8. Pichler, 'Godfathers of "Truth"', p. 185.
9. Ibid., pp. 190 ff.
10. See also for example, Klaus-Gerd Giesen, L'éthique des relations internationales (Brussels: Bruylant, 1992).
11. Hans J. Morgenthau, 'Fragments of an Intellectual Autobiography: 1904-1932', in Kenneth Thompson and Robert J. Myers (eds.), Truth and Tragedy. A Tribute to Hans J. Morgenthau (New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1984), pp. 15-17.
12. Stefano Guzzini, Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy (London: Routledge, 1998), pp. 190-200.
13. Martin Hollis and Steve Smith, Explaining and Understanding International Relations (Oxford: Clarendon, 1990), pp. 1-7; Robert Keohane, 'International institutions: two approaches', International Studies Quarterly, 32 (1988), pp. 379-96.
14. Martin Hollis and Steve Smith, Explaining and Understanding International Relations (Oxford: Clarendon, 1990), pp. 1-7; Robert Keohane, 'International institutions: two approaches', International Studies Quarterly, 32 (1988), pp. 379-96.
15. Guzzini, Realism in International Relations, p. 210.
16. Pichler, 'Godfathers of "Truth"', pp. 198-9.
17. Most interestingly on this: John McCormick, 'Fear, Technology, and the State: Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, and the Revival of Hobbes in Weimar and National Socialist Germany', Political Theory, 22 (1994), pp. 619-52. John McCormick, Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
18. Most interestingly on this: John McCormick, 'Fear, Technology, and the State: Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, and the Revival of Hobbes in Weimar and National Socialist Germany', Political Theory, 22 (1994), pp. 619-52. John McCormick, Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
19. Göran Dahl, 'Will "The Other God" fail again? On the possible return of the conservative revolution', Theory, Culture and Society, 13 (1996), pp. 25-50. Richard Wölin, 'Carl Schmitt, the Conservative Revolutionary: Habitus and the Aesthetics of Horror', Political Theory, 20 (1992), pp. 424-47.
20. Göran Dahl, 'Will "The Other God" fail again? On the possible return of the conservative revolution', Theory, Culture and Society, 13 (1996), pp. 25-50. Richard Wölin, 'Carl Schmitt, the Conservative Revolutionary: Habitus and the Aesthetics of Horror', Political Theory, 20 (1992), pp. 424-47.
21. Mark Lilla, 'The Enemy of Liberalism'.
22. Terry Nardin, 'Ethical traditions in international relations', in Terry Nardin and David R. Mapel (eds.), Traditions of International Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 2.
23. Michel Foucault, 'What is Enlightenment', in Paul Rabinow (ed.), The Foucault Reader (New York: Pantheon, 1984), p. 49.
24. Wölin, 'Carl Schmitt, the Conservative Revolutionary', p. 426. For a more thorough exposition of a Bourdieuan reading of intellectual 'godfathers', see Pierre Bourdieu's analysis of the political ontology of Heidegger: Pierre Bourdieu, The Political Ontology of Martin Heidegger (Cambridge: Polity, 1991).
25. Wölin, 'Carl Schmitt, the Conservative Revolutionary', p. 426. For a more thorough exposition of a Bourdieuan reading of intellectual 'godfathers', see Pierre Bourdieu's analysis of the political ontology of Heidegger: Pierre Bourdieu, The Political Ontology of Martin Heidegger (Cambridge: Polity, 1991).
26. Pierre Bourdieu, La Noblesse d'Etat (Paris, Les Editions de Minuit, 1989), p. 9.
27. Loïc Wacquant, 'On the tracks of symbolic power: perfatory notes to Bourdieu's "state nobility"', Theory, Culture and Society, 10 (1993), pp. 4-5.
28. Wölin, 'Carl Schmitt, the Conservative Revolutionary', p. 426
29. Mark Lilla, 'The Enemy of Liberalism'; Heinrich Meier, Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).
30. Mark Lilla, 'The Enemy of Liberalism'; Heinrich Meier, Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).
31. Peter Bürger, 'Carl Schmitt oder die Fundierung der Politik auf Ästhetik', Christa Bürger (ed.), Zerstörung: Rettung der Mythos durch Licht (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1986).
32. Dahl, 'The Other God', p. 26.
33. Pierre Bourdieu, The Political Ontology of Martin Heidegger, pp. 3-4.