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Between the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich: Continuity in Carl Schmitt's Thought

The relation between Carl Schmitt's thinking during the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich has been a source of contention, at least since the early 1930s. On the one side ther are those who argue that the Nazi period marked a break in Schmitt's thinking,¹ i.e., a disgraceful hiatus in an otherwise honorable and scholarly career; on the other,² there are those who argue that there was no break, i.e., that Schmitt's whole intellectual development came to fruition in the Third Reich and that his thinking was tainted from the start. Neither of these positions is on the mark.

Schmitt's...