CARL SCHMITT — SELECTION OF 9 WORKS + JULIEN FREUND

CARL SCHMITT — SELECTION OF 9 WORKS + JULIEN FREUND

An important bibliographical selection devoted to the work of Carl Schmitt, comprising nine of his major works and complemented by Julien Freund’s A Comprehensive Overview of the Work of Carl Schmitt, which provides a panoramic approach to Schmitt’s thought and helps contextualize the concepts and problems developed throughout his writings.

The selection includes The Dictatorship, in which Schmitt examines dictatorship as a legal and political category and distinguishes its different forms and functions in relation to the legal order. In The European Interpretation of Donoso Cortés, he analyzes the thought of the Spanish writer and politician and its significance within the European political tradition, particularly in relation to authority, sovereignty, and political decision.

Ex Captivitate Salus contains autobiographical, intellectual, and historical reflections connected with Schmitt’s experience after the Second World War and with his relationship to the European legal and political tradition. Writings on World Politics brings together texts concerning international politics, world order, relations between states, and transformations in the international political system.

In Clausewitz as a Political Thinker, Schmitt examines the political dimension of Carl von Clausewitz’s work and reflects on the relationship between war, politics, and the state. Legality and Legitimacy is one of his major works on constitutional theory, addressing the relationship and tensions between legality, legitimacy, the Constitution, parliamentarism, and the organization of the state.

The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes presents Schmitt’s interpretation of Hobbes and the development of modern state theory, with particular attention to sovereignty, authority, representation, and political unity. In Political Theology, one of his central works, Schmitt analyzes the relationship between theological concepts and fundamental concepts of state theory, with particular emphasis on sovereignty, decision, and the state of exception.

Finally, Theory of the Partisan examines the figure of the partisan and the transformations of modern warfare, relating them to the political, strategic, and international changes taking place in contemporary conflicts.

As a complement and conclusion to the collection, Julien Freund’s A Comprehensive Overview of the Work of Carl Schmitt offers a panoramic reading of Schmitt’s intellectual production, placing his principal concepts, categories, and concerns within a broader view of his thought.

Taken together, these works are of particular interest to scholars of law, state theory, political theory, political philosophy, constitutional law, contemporary history, and international relations, as well as to researchers and collectors of twentieth-century legal and political literature.