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Reinhard Mehring - Carl Schmitt: A Biography - 9780745652245 - V9780745652245
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Carl Schmitt: A Biography

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Description for Carl Schmitt: A Biography Hardback. * Carl Schmitt is widely recognized as one of the most important political theorists of the 20th century and his work has been hugely influential in many fields including politics and theology. Num Pages: 700 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; HPCF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 230 x 63. Weight in Grams: 1258.

Carl Schmitt is one of the most widely read and influential German thinkers of the twentieth century.  His fundamental works on friend and enemy, legality and legitimacy, dictatorship, political theology and the concept of the political are read today with great interest by everyone from conservative Catholic theologians to radical political thinkers on the left.

In his private life, however, Schmitt was haunted by the demons of his wild anti-Semitism, his self-destructive and compulsive sexuality and his deep-seated resentment against the complacency of bourgeois life. As a young man from a modest background, full of social envy, he succeeded in ... Read more

Reinhard Mehring's outstanding biography is the most comprehensive work available on the life and work of Carl Schmitt. Based on thorough research and using new sources that were previously unavailable, Mehring portrays Schmitt as a Shakespearean figure at the centre of the German catastrophe.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
700
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745652245
SKU
V9780745652245
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Ref
99-50

About Reinhard Mehring
Reinhard Mehring is Professor of Political Science at the Pädagogische Hochschule, Heidelberg.

Reviews for Carl Schmitt: A Biography
"Mehring’s study...lay bare the links between Schmitt’s litigious life and his complicated ideas." Library Journal "Reinhard Mehring offers the English speaking world the first comprehensive intellectual biography of the highly controversial legal and political theorist, Carl Schmitt.  Based on extensive archival research and a vast amount of unpublished material, Mehring identifies the psychological and emotional motivations that drove ... Read more

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