Volume 7 (2021), Edition 2

Why should we read Carl Schmitt, an authoritarian and at times convinced National Socialist jurist, today? What could we gain and learn from Schmitt’s thought that would be of more than historical interest? And how should his indissolubly...

As in the book “Was tun mit Carl Schmitt?”, we try here to provide a decontextualized account of some Carl Schmitt’s arguments, in order to evaluate their possible fertility. This concerns what “political theology” implies for law, the...

In her contribution, Marietta Auer takes up Jean-François Kervégan’s call to decontextualize Schmitt and to take up and modify individual aspects of his writings. Auer addresses the problem of a specifically jurisprudential epistemology and thus...

In his contribution, Klaus Günther deals with Schmitt’s distinction between legality and legitimacy. According to Günther, Kervégan’s decontextualization of the distinction first requires a recontextualization. Thus, he shows to what extent...

In his contribution, Jens Hacke considers the potentials of a liberal reception of Schmitt from the perspective of political science. On the one hand, he highlights the descriptive value of some of Schmitt’s theorems when being taken up and...

In her contribution, Anna-Bettina Kaiser first asks the sociological question whether Schmitt’s wide reception is a testament to the topicality of his thought or whether it is also to an important degree due to an influential group of students....

In the section „On the Constitution“ in his „Foundations of Natural Right“, Johann Gottlieb Fichte designs a total police state. The passport functions as an instrument to ensure permanent surveillance of citizens. This text paradigmatically...