Know your Schmitt: a godfather of truth and the spectre of Nazism
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323 * This article is indebted to the discussions on Schmitt’s concept of the political in the Critical Theory Reading Group at the London Centre of International Relations at the University of Kent. I would also like to thank Mick Cox for helpful comments on an earlier version. 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. Know your Schmitt: a godfather of truth and the spectre of Nazism
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