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The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt
The Enemy An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt Author:Gopal Balakrishnan 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 un-translated oeuvre forming no recognizable system, coming to us fro... more »m 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, presented in an arresting narrative form, which reveals the complex ways in which his ideas took shape in the intertwining timelines of civil and world wars.« less