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The writings of Carl Schmitt form what is arguably the most disconcerting, original, and yet still unfamiliar body of twentieth-century political thought. In the English-speaking world, he is "terra incognita," a name associated with Nazism, the author of a largely untranslated oeuvre forming no recognizable system, coming to us from a disturbing place and time in the form of fragments. "The Enemy" is a comprehensive reconstruction and analysis of all of Schmitt's major works--his books, articles and pamphlets from 1919 to 1950--presented in an arresting narrative form. The revelation of his work is that, unlike mainstream Nazi ideology, Schmitt makes a strong philosophical claim for the necessity of confrontational politics within a democratic system; a claim that has resonance in today's hegemony of consensual politics.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general Biography: historical, political & military

• Full title: Enemy
• Subtitle: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt
• Author: Gopal Balakrishnan
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 322
• EAN: 9781859843598
• ISBN: 185984359X
• ID: 04304859
• Publisher: Verso Books
• Weight: 492 g
• Dimensions: 231 × 156 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. September 2002

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