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Love, Law, and War: Carl Schmitt's Angst

For decades an array of scholars read Carl Schmitt's publications not only to understand his concepts and arguments but also to extrapolate from them the essence of his character and motivation. What was thereby surmised about the man was then, in turn, utilized in interpreting those very works. The result has been a half-century of diametrically opposed perspectives and claims whose contradictory nature greatly exceeded anything found among the scholarship of comparable controversial figures, such as Ernst Jünger and Martin Heidegger. The gradual availability of parts of Schmitt's papers over the past decade definitely widened the evidentiary basis for such...