This article analyses the role played by concept of nation in interwar writings Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) and Eric Voegelin (1901–1985). It contends that, although these conservative thinkers were drawn different ways to anti-progressive potential nationalist ideas, centre their political theoretical horizons that period is occupied problems unity authority. Therefore, nationalism fundamentally ...

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’...