Enduring Enmity : The Story of Otto Kirchheimer and Carl Schmitt.

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Main Author: Buchstein, Hubertus.
Other Authors: Lustig, Sandra H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2024.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Edition Politik Series
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505 0 |a Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Translator's Preface -- Nazi German -- Translating Nazi German -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Refuting the Legends -- 1. Repeated visits and friendship after World War II? -- 2. Grasping the Lage: Two theorists of concrete situations -- 3. Through the lens of the other -- 4. Enduring enmity in changing Lagen -- 5. The godfather of left‐Schmittianism? -- 6. Sources -- The Weimar Republic -- Chapter 2: The Beginnings in Bonn (1926-1928) -- 1. Schmitt at the first high point of his academic career -- 2. Kirchheimer's early studies and his decision to study with Schmitt -- 3. The famous professor and his student -- 4. Evaluating Kirchheimer's dissertation -- 5. Conclusion: Lessons from Bolshevism for Social Democrats -- Chapter 3: Democracy in Disagreement (1928-1931) -- 1. The changing political Lage -- 2. Two jurists move to Berlin -- 3. Trouble with political justice -- 4. Structural changes of parliamentarism -- 5. Fascism and socialism as alternatives -- 6. Weimar-and what then? -- 7. Property rights and expropriation -- 8. Presidential dictatorship -- 9. Who is the guardian of the constitution? -- 10. Conclusion: The art of quoting each other -- Chapter 4: Two Versions of Anti‐Imperialism -- 1. Schmitt's early writings on international law -- 2. Kirchheimer's early writings on international law -- 3. Kirchheimer's critique of capitalist imperialism -- 4. Conclusion: Left‐wing versus right‐wing anti‐imperialism -- Chapter 5: Escalating Antagonisms (1932) -- 1. Legality and legitimacy -- 2. The coup against Prussia -- 3. Constitutional reform? -- 4. Conclusion: Defending or destroying the republic -- Chapter 6: The Methodological Debate and Weimar's Final Days (1933) -- 1. Schmitt on his method -- 2. The Weimar debate about Schmitt's method -- 3. Against conceptual realism. 
505 8 |a 4. The intense final days of the republic -- 5. Conclusion: Two politically active legal theorists taken by surprise -- Schmitt in Nazi Germany and Kirchheimer in Exile -- Chapter 7: The Consolidation of the Third Reich (1933-1934) -- 1. Kirchheimer's escape from Germany -- 2. Schmitt's decision to support the Nazi Führer state -- 3. Exiled in London and Paris -- 4. Schmitt as an ambitious theorist of the Third Reich -- 5. Kirchheimer as a theorist of democratic alternatives -- 6. Conclusion: Distant reading -- Chapter 8: Confrontations Across Borders (1935-1937) -- 1. Kirchheimer camouflaged as Schmitt -- 2. Sidelining Schmitt -- 3. Kirchheimer's political activities in Paris and his arrival in New York -- 4. Conclusion: In waiting positions -- Chapter 9: From Leviathan to Behemoth (1938-1942) -- 1. Kirchheimer's early studies in criminology -- 2. Thomas Hobbes and the authoritarian state in Schmitt's Weimar works -- 3. Schmitt's second thoughts about Leviathan -- 4. Kirchheimer's Behemoth in Punishment and Social Structure -- 5. Controversies over Nazism at the Institute of Social Research -- 6. Conclusion: A message across the Atlantic -- Chapter 10: Practicing Antisemitism and Analyzing Antisemitism -- 1. Schmitt's view of Kirchheimer: The "vile Jew" -- 2. Schmitt as an antisemitic Nazi propagandist -- 3. Kirchheimer's research on antisemitism at the Institute of Social Research -- 4. Kirchheimer's Policy of the Catholic Church Toward the Jews -- 5. Kirchheimer's contribution to the Frankfurt School's research -- 6. Conclusion: The modernity of Catholic antisemitism -- Chapter 11: Preparing Germany for New Wars (1936-1939) -- 1. Schmitt's "specifically National Socialist insights" -- 2. Challenging the discriminating concept of war -- 3. Echoes in Geneva and New York -- 4. Conclusion: Germany attacking Poland. 
505 8 |a Chapter 12: From Großraum Theory to the Escalation of World War II (1939-1942) -- 1. Early critical theory's disregard of international politics -- 2. Schmitt's Großraum theory -- 3. Schmitt and the further escalation of the war -- 4. Kirchheimer on Schmitt's apologia for the Nazi wars -- 5. Kirchheimer and Neumann's Behemoth on the concept of Großraum -- 6. Schmitt lying in wait again -- 7. Kirchheimer's career problems -- 8. On the verge of Germany's liberation -- 9. Conclusion: Waiting for the end of the war -- Chapter 13: On the Road to the Nuremberg Trials (1943-1945) -- 1. Schmitt's wait‐and‐see stance -- 2. Bringing German war criminals to justice -- 3. Defending a German war criminal -- 4. Preparing for the trials -- 5. Conclusion: Scenes of an indirect dialogue -- Postwar Democracies -- Chapter 14: Dealing with the Future-and the Past (1946-1948) -- 1. Denazifying and governing occupied Germany -- 2. Schmitt's imprisonments and his return to Plettenberg -- 3. Post‐Holocaust antisemitism -- 4. Kirchheimer's struggle with the FBI -- 5. Kirchheimer's dashed hopes for a socialist democratic Germany -- 6. Conclusion: Different disillusions -- Chapter 15: Renewed Contact and Controversy (1949-1956) -- 1. Amnesty as amnesia -- 2. Evaluating the new West German democracy -- 3. Meeting face to face in Plettenberg -- 4. Schmitt's return to the public eye -- 5. Kirchheimer as a political scientist -- 6. At a distance: More correspondence and another meeting -- 7. Kirchheimer as a professor of political science in the US -- 8. Criticism of Schmittianism in German legal thought -- 9. Conclusion: The new constellation -- Chapter 16: Juridification and Political Justice (1957-1961) -- 1. Debating each other in public again -- 2. Resuming correspondence in 1958 -- 3. Schmitt on political justice -- 4. The backstory to Kirchheimer's book. 
505 8 |a 5. The ambivalences of political justice -- 6. In dialogue with Hannah Arendt -- 7. Kirchheimer as a professor at the New School for Social Research -- 8. Conclusion: A Smendian solution to a Schmittian problem -- Chapter 17: The Final Break (1962-1965) -- 1. Kirchheimer as a professor at Columbia University -- 2. The conflict over George Schwab's dissertation -- 3. Second‐order observations -- 4. On partisans and political partisanship -- 5. Against consumer society -- 6. Kirchheimer's untimely death -- 7. Conclusion: Becoming Schmitt's friend posthumously -- Conclusion -- Chapter 18: Kirchheimer's Strategies for Debating Schmitt -- 1. Cherry‐picking and reframing -- 2. Frontal attack -- 3. Condemning Schmitt as a Nazi propagandist -- 4. Deliberate disregard -- 5. Redirecting Schmitt's ideas beyond their original horizon -- 6. Conclusion: Defining Legacies -- Appendix -- Abbreviations -- List of German Courts -- Glossary -- Sources and Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Personal Sources -- Bibliography -- Index of Names. 
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