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Carl Schmitt and the Jews : the "Jewish question," the Holocaust, and German legal theory
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Uniform Title
Carl Schmitt und die Juden. English.
Title
Carl Schmitt and the Jews : the "Jewish question," the Holocaust, and German legal theory / Raphael Gross ; translated by Joel Golb ; foreword by Peter C. Caldwell.
ISBN
0299222403 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780299222406 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2007.
Physical Description
xix, 347 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 29, 2007
Series
George L. Mosse series in modern European cultural and intellectual history.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-328) and index.
Contents
The Jews in Schmitt's early work
Schmitt's position in 1933
Schmitt's assault on the "Jewish legal state"
"Judaism in legal studies"
The French Revolution and the Catholic reaction
The counterrevolution in the Weimar Republic
Catholic atheism
Political theology as a Festschrift for Max Weber
Jewish emancipation or a "Christian state"
Protestant atheism
"Pure legal theory" as secularized theology of the enemy
The Jews in the Christian history of salvation
Depolitization
Desubstantialization
The flight into religion
Schmitt's struggle against the theologians and Jews.
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