The University of Chicago Press continues its great public service of re-printing difficult to find, out of print, or expensive editions of Carl Schmitt’s works in affordable paperbacks. In October they re-printed The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: The Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol, with a new preface from Tracy B. Strong (rest of the volume is identical to 1996 Greenwood Press edition). Roman Catholicism and Political Form, with a new preface from John B. McCormick (otherwise identical to the 1996 Greenwood Press edition), will be published this month. Perhaps of greater interest is the long-overdue translation of Political Theology II: The Myth of the Closure of Any Political Theology by Polity this past September.
Still waiting on a soul brave enough to translate the mammoth Die Diktator…
The updated Carl Schmitt bibliography can be found here.
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Tracy B. Strong’s intro to The Concept of the Political is horrible, I thought, why is he writing introductions at all?
Wait, maybe it’s to Political Theology – sorry, don’t have the books handy. Since you might know this actually, why are almost all quotation marks (including really important ones) dropped in the English translation of The Concept? Did you notice?
I only own the 1996 University of Chicago reprint of the original 1976 edition. I haven’t looked at the new edition at all. In the 1996 edition, both scare-quotes and regular quotations are present. For instance, “In one way or another ‘political’ is generally juxtaposed to ‘state’…” Or first footnote of section one, “The antithesis of law and politics is easily confused by the antithesis of civil and public law. According to J.K. Bluntschli in Allgemeines Staatsrecht, 4th ed. (Munich: J.G. Cotta, 1868), I, 219: ‘Property is a civil law and not a political concept.’”
Unless you mean something else. Obviously, he doesn’t cite, for instance, Weber in the second paragraph of the first section when giving a “general paraphrase” of “modern linguistic usgage” of the word state.
As for why Strong corners the market on introductions – I have no idea.
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