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Monthly Archives: August 2007

Carl Schmitt in English

Thursday, August 23, 2007

The bibliography has been updated to include the forthcoming Constitutional Theory volume and Bendersky’s recent translation of the ‘Fourth’/Second interrogation at Nuremberg. It is available here.

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Notes on Coffee

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Carl Schmitt and Jurgen Habermas are, without a doubt, the most (in)famous political theorists to come from Germany since since Marx. (One might want to include Leo Strauss, but I don’t think he wrote anything of substance on coffee.) As is well-known – many of us get our introductions to Habermas via his Structural Transformation [...]

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Recent Papers of Interest

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Both from the current (35(4) August 2007) issue of Political Theory. Machiavelli’s Political Trials and “The Free Way of Life” John P. McCormick University of Chicago, Illinois This essay examines the political trials through which, according to Machiavelli’s Discourses, republics should punish magistrates and prominent citizens who threaten or violate popular liberty. Unlike modern constitutions, [...]

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Another Schmitt Translation

Friday, August 17, 2007

The current issue of Telos (Summer 2007) has published a fourth transcript of Schmitt’s Nuremberg interrogations. Joseph Bendersky – translator and editor of the newly found transcript and the original ones as well – discusses it on the Telos website. I’ll comment on the transcripts (and update the bibliography) once I actually get a chance [...]

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Updates to Site

Sunday, August 12, 2007

First, readers may be interested to note that I’ve created a sub-site designed as a repository of my teaching materials (limited, at this point, to course outlines). It is located at http://www.theoria.ca/teaching. Many thanks to those who provided suggestions for my reading lists. Second, “Carl Schmitt in English” has undergone another update. It is located [...]

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Forthcoming: “Constitutional Theory” by Carl Schmitt

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Constitutional Theory (Duke UP) Carl Schmitt Edited and translated by Jeffrey Seitzer; With a foreword by Ellen Kennedy and an introduction by Jeffrey Seitzer and Christopher Thornhill

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Minnie

Sunday, August 5, 2007

It has taken a month for our fur-family to ready ourselves to reveal our recent loss publicly: our beloved dog Minnie is now no longer with us. Totally devastated, we cannot believe an entire month has already gone by. She was always eager to follow Mickey, but this has been a tragedy no one could [...]

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