Language:
German
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
70,2 (1996) 227-255
Keywords:
Schmitt, Carl,
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Antisemitism Philosophy
Abstract:
Argues that Schmitt's antisemitism was not opportunistic but was central to his thought before and after as well as during the Nazi period. It was not biological but derived from the mystical meaning he attached to space, in the sense of land. The landless Jews negate space; from this negation derives their normative, universalistic concept of law, in contrast to Schmitt's concept of a law derived from the rootedness of a people in its land. The Jewish element in Protestantism also led to a lack of attachment to the land. In symbiosis with Protestant Britain, ruler of the seas (the sea, antithesis of the land, symbolized for Schmitt turbulence, boundlessness, revolution), the Jews introduced the technological revolution and the ideal of a this-worldly utopia, in which the Catholic Schmitt saw the kingdom of the Antichrist.
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