1923-1939- Judgments and Concepts - In the Struggle with Weimar, Geneva, Versailles (Schmitt's Collected Works) (Volume 4)

Author: Carl Schmitt (Germany)
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This book is the fourth volume of the "Collected Works of Carl Schmitt." Like Marx, Schmitt was not only a scholar who could tackle major political issues of the real history but also an expert in practical political essays. On Judgment and Concept covers a very broad range, including public law (constitutional and international law), the history of political thought, international and domestic politics. Schmitt's political struggles began with the Treaty of Versailles and the Weimar Constitution, the two major events. As the title of On Judgment and Concept suggests, Schmitt's political essays are grounded in Germany's political situation as a rising nation-state—internationally, Germany was constrained by unequal international treaties such as the Treaty of Versailles and the Geneva Protocol, while domestically, it faced a crisis of national division due to the flaws in the Weimar constitutional design. This book is the fourth volume of the "Collected Works of Carl Schmitt." Like Marx, Schmitt was not only a scholar who could tackle major political issues of the real history but also an expert in practical political essays. On Judgment and Concept covers a very broad range, including public law (constitutional and international law), the history of political thought, international and domestic politics. Schmitt's political struggles began with the Treaty of Versailles and the Weimar Constitution, the two major events. As the title of On Judgment and Concept suggests, Schmitt's political essays are grounded in Germany's political situation as a rising nation-state—internationally, Germany was constrained by unequal international treaties such as the Treaty of Versailles and the Geneva Protocol, while domestically, it faced a crisis of national division due to the flaws in the Weimar constitutional design. Schmitt compiled the collection On Judgment and Concept during his lifetime, and this book covers a much broader range, including public law (constitutional and international law), the history of political thought, international and domestic politics. Schmitt's political essays began with the Treaty of Versailles and the Weimar Constitution, grounded in Germany's modern situation as a rising nation-state, starting from the "German question" as a modernity issue, and conducted intellectual political struggles, addressing the chaos in domestic political thought, particularly the oppression of Germany by imperialism.