Schmitt on Friend vs Enemy

Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political (1932) has been hugely influential on the left as well as the right of political debate despite the fact that its author joined the Nazi Party shortly after its publication. David explores the origins of Schmitt’s ideas in the debates about the Weimar Republic and examines his critique of liberal democracy. He asks what Schmitt’s distinction between friend and enemy has to teach us about democratic politics today. Recommended version to buy Going Deeper: Jan-Werner Mueller, A Dangerous Mind: CarlSchmitt in Post-War European Thought (2003) Tamsin Shaw, ‘William Barr: The Carl Schmitt ofOur Time,’ New York Review of Books (2020) Chang Che, ‘The Nazi Inspiring China’s Communists,’ The Atlantic (2020) (Audio): Carl Schmitt on Liberalism Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Schmitt on Friend vs Enemy is an episode from Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS.

This episode is 45:44 long.

This episode was published on Mar 16, 2021.

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