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Uses and Abuses of Carl Schmitt

Carl Schmitt's ideas were already a controversial topic in the US long before his works were translated into English. At least, so it is claimed by the latest generation of American Schmitt scholars, who have uncritically bought into a questionable German tradition² that since the 1950s has sought to checkmate Schmitt out of any legitimate political discourse.³

The result has been the perpetuation of ostensibly false interpretations of his ideas as being terminally fascist, thus unintendedly inflating their relevance and distorting the real reasons they have attracted, and continue to attract, any attention. These prejudicial readings have succeeded in reversing...