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Paperback copy of "The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt" by Verso, featuring the book cover with title and author details.
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Paperback copy of "The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt" by Verso, featuring the book cover with title and author details.

The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt

Verso
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$31.95

Description

The writings of Carl Schmitt form what is arguably the most disconcerting, original, and yet still unfamiliar body of twentieth-century political thought. In the English-speaking world, he is terra incognita, a name associated with Nazism, the author of a largely untranslated oeuvre forming no recognizable system, coming to us from a disturbing place and time in the form of fragments.

The Enemy is a comprehensive reconstruction and analysis of all of Schmitt's major works--his books, articles and pamphlets from 1919 to 1950--presented in an arresting narrative form. The revelation of his work is that, unlike mainstream Nazi ideology, Schmitt makes a strong philosophical claim for the necessity of confrontational politics within a democratic system; a claim that has resonance in today's hegemony of consensual politics.

Author: Gopal Balakrishnan
Publisher: Verso
Published: 09/17/2002
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781859843598
ISBN10: 185984359X
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | History & Theory | General

About the Author
Gopal Balakrishnan is the author of The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt, and editor of Debating "Empire" and (with Benedict Anderson) Mapping the Nation. A member of the New Left Review editorial board, he teaches Contemporary Theory at the University of California, Santa Cruz.