Carl Schmitt

Schmitt in 1932 Carl Schmitt}} (11 July 1888 – 7 April 1985) was a German jurist, political theorist, and prominent member of the Nazi Party.

Born in Plettenberg in 1888, Schmitt studied law in Berlin, Munich, and Strasbourg. In 1916, he married his first wife, Pavla Dorotić, but divorced her after realizing that she had pretended to be a countess. Schmitt was Catholic but broke with the church in the 1920s. He married Duška Todorović in 1926. During this time, he taught in Greifswald, Bonn, and Munich and published ''Dictatorship'' and ''Political Theology''. Schmitt taught in Cologne in 1932, published ''The Concept of the Political'', and supported the Papen government in ''Prussia v. Reich''. After the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor in 1933, Schmitt joined the Nazi Party. He was an active jurist, a member of the Prussian State Council, and a professor in Berlin. In 1936 Schmitt was forced to resign his political role when the targeted him, but Hermann Göring protected him. After the Second World War ended, Schmitt spent over a year in an internment camp and returned to Plettenberg. He refused denazification, which barred him from academic positions. However, he continued his studies and frequently received scholarly visitors. In 1963, he published the ''Theory of the Partisan''. Schmitt died on 7 April 1985 at the age of 96.

Schmitt wrote extensively about the effective wielding of political power. An authoritarian conservative theorist, he is noted as a critic of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, and cosmopolitanism. His works cover political theory, legal theory, continental philosophy, and political theology. However, they are controversial, mainly due to his intellectual support for and active involvement with Nazism. According to the ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', "Schmitt was an acute observer and analyst of the weaknesses of liberal constitutionalism and liberal cosmopolitanism. But there can be little doubt that his preferred cure turned out to be infinitely worse than the disease." Provided by Wikipedia
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    Interpretación europea de Donoso Cortés / by Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985

    Published 1952
    Book
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    Teoría de la constitución / by Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985

    Published 1927
    Book
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    Romanticismo político / by Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985

    Published 2001
    Book
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    Teoría de la constitución / by Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985

    Published 1996
    Book
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    Diálogo sobre el poder y el acceso al poderoso / by Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985

    Published 2010
    Book
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    El Leviathan en la teoría del Estado de Tomas Hobbes / by Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985

    Published 2004
    Book
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    Tierra y mar : una reflexión sobre la historia universal / by Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985

    Published 2007
    Book
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    Sobre los tres modos de pensar la ciencia jurídica / by Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985

    Published 1996
    Book
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    Hamlet o Hécuba : la irrupción del tiempo en el drama / by Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985

    Published 1993
    Book
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    Tierra y mar : consideraciones sobre la historia universal / by Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985

    Published 1952
    Book
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    Estudios políticos / by Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985

    Published 1941
    Book
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    Situación de la ciencia jurídica europea / by Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985

    Article