Hostis not Inimicus: Toward a Theory of the Public in the Work of Carl Schmitt

Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 35-47

  Kennedy, Ellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 85008213262     PISSN: 08418209     EISSN: 20564260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0841820900000229     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Margarit Kraft-Fuchs, "Prinzipielle Bemerkungen zu Carl Schmitt's Verfassungslehre" (1930) 9 Zeitschrift fur offentliches Recht 511.
2. Carl Schmitt, Der Wert des Staates und die Bedeutung des Einzelnen (Tubingen: Hellerauer Verlag/Jakob Hegner, 1914).
3. Carl Schmitt, Der Begriff des Politischen (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1979) at 70.
4. Mussolini with Machiavelli: "Just as in the 16th century, an Italian has once again given expression to the principle of political realism." The reference is to Mussolini's October 1922 speech in Naples.
5. Schmitt, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy trans, and intro. Ellen Kennedy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985) at 76.
6. Ellen Kennedy, "Carl Schmitt und Hugo Ball: Ein Beitrag zum Thema 'Politischer Expressionismus'" (1988) 35 Zeitschrift fur Politik 143;
7. and Ellen Kennedy, "Politischer Expressionismus: Die kulturkritischen und metaphysischen Urspriinge des Begriffs des Politischen von Carl Schmitt" in Helmut Quaritsch, ed., Complexio Oppositorum. tiber Carl Schmitt (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1988) 233.
8. For a review of more recent literature see Reinhard Mehring, "Vom Umgang mit Carl Schmitt. Zur neueren Literatur" (1993) 19 Geschichte und Gesellschaft 388;
9. and Herfried Munkler, "Carl Schmitt in der Diskussion" (1990) 35 Neue Politische Literatur 289.
10. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things. An Archeology of the Human Sciences (London & New York: Tavistock, 1970) at 21.
11. Volker Berghahn Modern Germany. Society, Economy and Politics in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982) at 74.
12. Urteil des Kammergerichts vom 12. Februar 1906 (Johow Bd. 31, 32-34).
13. H. Geffcken, "Offentliche Angelegenheit, politischer Gegenstand und politischer Verein nach preuBischem Recht", Festschrift fur Ernst Friedberg (1908) at 287ff.
14. Jeze, Les principles generaux du droit administratif(1925)
15. R. Alibert, he controle juridictionnel de ['administration (1926).
16. Rudolf Smend, "Die politische Gewalt im Verfassungsstaat und das Problem der Staatsform" (1923) in Smend, Staatsrechtliche Abhandlungen, (Duncker & Humblot: Berlin, 1968) at 82;
17. V. Pareto, Traite de sociologie generate (French ed. 1917 & 1919, 1, at 450ff & II. at 785ff.).
18. J. P. Thayer Cases on Constitutional Law (1895).
19. Art. 48, para. 2 was used 135 times between October 20 1919 and April 29 1925.
20. Fritz Poetzsch, Vom Staatsleben unterder Weimarer Verfassung (1933/34) 21 Jahrbuch des offentlichen Rechts at 141ff.
21. The terms "commissarial" and "sovereign" dictatorship are Schmitt's: Die Diktatur. Von den Anfdngen des modernen Souverdnitdtsgedanken bis zum proletarischen Klassenkampf (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1921 & 1927)
22. See also M. Rainer Lepsius, "From Fragmented Party Democracy to Government by Emergency Decree and National Socialist Takeover: Germany" in Juan Linz & Alfred Stephen, eds., The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Europe (Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1970).
23. Schmitt, DerHUterder Verfassung (Tubingen: J.C.B.Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1931) at 13.
24. Hermann Heller, "Die Krisis der Staatslehre", Gesammelte Schriften (J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck): Tubingen, 1992, first pub. 1926) vol. II at 10.
25. Gustav Radbruch, Grundziige der Rechtsphilosophie (1914) at 186.
26. Max Weber, Politics as a Vocation. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, trans, and intro. H.H. Gerth & C. Wright Mills (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1974) at 77.
27. Ernst Junger's novel Im Stahlgewitter (1921);
28. Erich Kaufmann's treatise on international law, Das Wesen des Volkerrechts imd die clausula rebus sic stantibus (1916).
29. Carl Schmitt, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985, first pub. 1926) at 49.
30. Gustav LeBon The Man and His Works (Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1979) at 57-65.
31. Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, The Pelican Freud Library, vol. 12 (Civilization, Society and Religion) (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987) at 116.
32. William Kornhauser, The Politics of Mass Society (New York: Free Press, 1959)
33. Joseph Schumpeter Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (New York: Harper & Bros., 1947);
34. C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite (New York: Oxford University Press, 1956).
35. Richard Behrendt, Politischer Aktivismus (Hirschfeld Verlag: 1932).
36. "In contrast to the general concept "people", "nation" refers to an individual people characterized by its political consciousness." Verfassungslehre (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1989, first pub. 1928) at 231.
37. For hostis meant to our forefathers he whom we now call a stranger. (...) What greater courteousness could there be than to call him against whom you are waging war by so tender a name?" On Duties (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) at 16.