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Enduring Enmity

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How did the relationship between the politically very disparate theorists Carl Schmitt and Otto Kirchheim shape their political thinking? Hubertus Buchstein investigates the personal, political, an...
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  • 03 September 2024
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To date, the relationship between Otto Kirchheimer and Carl Schmitt has invariably been described as friendly, despite their political differences. Kirchheimer has even been 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.
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Price: $65.00
Pages: 576
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date: 03 September 2024
Trim Size: 9.45 X 6.10 in
ISBN: 9783837664706
Format: Paperback
BISACs: POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, SCIENCE / History
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Hubertus Buchstein, born in 1959, professor of political theory at Universität Greifswald, Germany. He has obtained his doctorate at Freie Universität Berlin and has taught at the New School for Social Research in New York. His research focusses on modern democratic theory, the history of political ideas, the use of lotteries in political decision making, and Critical Theory.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgments 11
Translator's Preface 15
Chapter 1: Introduction: Refuting the Legends 25
Chapter 2: The Beginnings in Bonn (1926-1928) 49
Chapter 3: Democracy in Disagreement (1928-1931) 67
Chapter 4: Two Versions of Anti-Imperialism 105
Chapter 5: Escalating Antagonisms (1932) 121
Chapter 6: The Methodological Debate and Weimar's Final Days (1933) 145
Chapter 7: The Consolidation of the Third Reich (1933-1934) 169
Chapter 8: Confrontations Across Borders (1935-1937) 201
Chapter 9: From Leviathan to Behemoth (1938-1942) 223
Chapter 10: Practicing Antisemitism and Analyzing Antisemitism 255
Chapter 11: Preparing Germany for New Wars (1936-1939) 281
Chapter 12: From Großraum Theory to the Escalation of World War II (1939-1942) 295
Chapter 13: On the Road to the Nuremberg Trials (1943-1945) 325
Chapter 14: Dealing with the Future—and the Past (1946-1948) 349
Chapter 15: Renewed Contact and Controversy (1949-1956) 381
Chapter 16: Juridification and Political Justice (1957-1961) 415
Chapter 17: The Final Break (1962-1965) 447
Chapter 18: Kirchheimer's Strategies for Debating Schmitt 477
Abbreviations 501
List of German Courts 503
Glossary 507
Sources and Bibliography 517
Index of Names 567