Language:
German
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Neue Rundschau
Angaben zur Quelle:
111,3 (2000) 168-179
Keywords:
Schmitt, Carl,
;
Antisemitism Philosophy
Abstract:
Argues that although discussion of Schmitt's antisemitism has been a taboo for most of his critics, who saw in it only an opportunistic concession to Nazism after 1933, it was in fact the nucleus of his doctrine, as shown by Raphael Gross in his book "Carl Schmitt und die Juden" (2000). True, in the 1920s he did not mention the Jews by name; but when he declared that the "political" means distinguishing the concrete enemy and separating him from the friend, and that the enemy is the stranger without territory, the stateless who subverts the power of the state by replacing it with the law, it is clear whom he means. In a speech to jurists in 1936, he said that in order to purge law libraries of the "Jewish spirit" it is essential to determine with precision who is a Jew. Suggests that in thus separating out books for destruction, he was a forerunner of those who separated out human beings for extermination. In his post-1945 writings he did not renounce his antisemitism but clothed it in theological terms. Nevertheless, Schmitt's thought, with its demand for distinctions, is still worth studying and developing.
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