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On Schmitt and space / Claudio Minca and Rory Rowan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Minca, Claudio, author.
- Series:
- Interventions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985.
- Schmitt, Carl.
- Political science--Germany--History--20th century.
- Political science.
- Political science--Philosophy--History--20th century.
- Sovereignty--Philosophy.
- Sovereignty.
- International relations--Philosophy.
- International relations.
- War (Philosophy).
- International organization--Philosophy.
- International organization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (299 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book represents the first comprehensive study of the influential German legal and political thinker Carl Schmitt's spatial thought, offering the first systematic examination from a Geographic perspective of one of the most important political thinkers of the twentieth century. It charts the development of Schmitt's spatial thinking from his early work on secularization and the emergence of the modern European state to his post war analysis of the spatial basis of global order and international law, whilst situating his thought in relation to his changing biographical and intellectual cont
- Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The structure of the book; Notes; 1. Writing Carl Schmitt; An intellectual adventurer; Interpreting the sphinx; Notes; 2. The return of Carl Schmitt; Why Schmitt now? A reactionary's renaissance; A new 'spatial' Schmitt; Notes; 3. Spatializing the political; Secularization and political form; The political: the groundless grounds of order; Spatializing the political: the concrete situation; Notes; 4. Liberal Leviathan; Liberalism and the metaphysical image of the age; Sovereignty; Homogeneity
- MythArticle 48; Towards the total state; Notes; 5. Nazi Behemoth; Howling with the wolves; The Nazi writings; Towards the biopolitical state; Notes; 6. Großraum; Liberalism, international law and war; Großraum order; Nazism, Geojurisprudence, Lebensraum; Lebensraum and the 'Jewish question'; Notes; 7. Spatial histories; Modernity and global spatial revolutions; Geo-elemental mythologies of land and sea; Eschatological geopolitics; Notes; 8. A new Nomos of the Earth?; The Nomos of the Earth; Nomos as concept: the grounds of the political; Nomos as institution: jus publicum Europaeum
- Twentieth century spatial chaosA new nomos of the earth?; The last sentinel of the Earth: the Partisan; Notes; Conclusion; Limitations; Engagements; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781134448166
- 1134448163
- 9780203796207
- 0203796209
- 9781134448098
- 1134448090
- OCLC:
- 914472352
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