Books by Carl Schmitt
“Carl Schmitt was a legal scholar and jurisprudent from the interwar period in Germany. He wrote a lot about the administrative state, some really big texts and then a few narrow, sleek volumes that are quite gripping and attractive. He’s quite brilliant, but they’re extremely reactionary and explosive. What he was worried about during that period was that the constitutional order would never settle down, and that there was nobody in Weimar Germany who could make things happen. He had this deep unease with the disorder and the chaos of it. He ended up embracing a far more authoritarian politics with an executive emergency power mode. He was embraced by the Nazis and became a Nazi. He never recanted, so some people call him ‘the Crown Jurist of the Third Reich.’ That’s exaggerated because he ended up being ousted from the actual regime, but it gives you a flavour of his politics.” Read more...
Laura Field, Political Scientist
Interviews where books by Carl Schmitt were recommended
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The Concept of the Political
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One Man’s Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal
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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
by Kristin Kobes du Mez -
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Liberalism as a Way of Life
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The Limits of Critique
by Rita Felski
The best books on MAGA, recommended by Laura Field
The best books on MAGA, recommended by Laura Field
While often associated with populism and economic dissatisfaction, the success of the MAGA movement in the United States is also rooted in a distinctive set of ideas about culture, identity, authority, and national renewal. Political theorist Laura Field recommends five books that explore the movement’s intellectual challenge to liberal democracy, from the work of Carl Schmitt in 1930s Germany to cultural shifts in evangelical Christianity today.
