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

Bibliographic Details
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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