Ex Captivitate Salus: Experiences, 1945 - 47
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (795 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1509511644 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 120 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Ex Captivitate Salus is Carl Schmitt?s poetic, apocalyptic, seductive but ultimately unsatisfying attempt at self-exculpation after the Fall of the Third Reich ? which, in its early years, Schmitt served so faithfully."John McCormick, The University of Chicago
Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important and influential political theorists of the twentieth century. His many works published in English include The Concept of the Political, Political Theology and On Dictatorship.
It will be of great value to the many students and scholars in political theory and law who continue to study and appreciate this seminal theorist of the 20th century.. Schmitt often urged his readers to view the book as though it were a series of letters personally directed to each of them. Carl Schmitt, although not belonging to the circles subject to automatic arrest, was held in one of these camps in the years 1945-46, and then, in March 1947, in the prison of the international tribunal in Nuremberg, as witness and 'possible defendant'. Schmitt's way of coping in the years of isolation was to write this book, clarifying his own position on certain fundamental questions. This reflective work sheds new light on Schmitt's thought and personal situation at the beginning of a period of exile from public life that only ended with his death in 1985. Hence there is a decidedly personal dimension to the text as Schmitt expr