Enduring Enmity : The Story of Otto Kirchheimer and Carl Schmitt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910875596103321
• Autore: Buchstein Hubertus
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , 2024; ©2024
• ISBN: 3-8394-6470-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (577 pages)
• Collana: Edition Politik Series
• Altri autori (Persone): LustigSandra H
• Disciplina: 340.1
• Soggetti: POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Translator's Preface -- Nazi German -- Translating Nazi German -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Refuting the Legends -- 1. Repeated visits and friendship after World War II? -- 2. Grasping the Lage: Two theorists of concrete situations -- 3. Through the lens of the other -- 4. Enduring enmity in changing Lagen -- 5. The godfather of left‐Schmittianism? -- 6. Sources -- The Weimar Republic -- Chapter 2: The Beginnings in Bonn (1926-1928) -- 1. Schmitt at the first high point of his academic career -- 2. Kirchheimer's early studies and his decision to study with Schmitt -- 3. The famous professor and his student -- 4. Evaluating Kirchheimer's dissertation -- 5. Conclusion: Lessons from Bolshevism for Social Democrats -- Chapter 3: Democracy in Disagreement (1928-1931) -- 1. The changing political Lage -- 2. Two jurists move to Berlin -- 3. Trouble with political justice -- 4. Structural changes of parliamentarism -- 5. Fascism and socialism as alternatives -- 6. Weimar-and what then? -- 7. Property rights and expropriation -- 8. Presidential dictatorship -- 9. Who is the guardian of the constitution? -- 10. Conclusion: The art of quoting each other -- Chapter 4: Two Versions of Anti‐Imperialism -- 1. Schmitt's early writings on international law -- 2. Kirchheimer's early writings on international law -- 3. Kirchheimer's critique of capitalist imperialism -- 4. Conclusion: Left‐wing versus right‐wing anti‐imperialism -- Chapter 5: Escalating Antagonisms (1932) -- 1. Legality and legitimacy -- 2. The coup against Prussia -- 3. Constitutional reform? -- 4. Conclusion: ; Defending or destroying the republic -- Chapter 6: The Methodological Debate and Weimar's Final Days (1933) -- 1. Schmitt on his method -- 2. The Weimar debate about Schmitt's method -- 3. Against conceptual realism.; 4. The intense final days of the republic -- 5. Conclusion: Two politically active legal theorists taken by surprise -- Schmitt in Nazi Germany and Kirchheimer in Exile -- Chapter 7: The Consolidation of the Third Reich (1933-1934) -- 1. Kirchheimer's escape from Germany -- 2. Schmitt's decision to support the Nazi Führer state -- 3. Exiled in London and Paris -- 4. Schmitt as an ambitious theorist of the Third Reich -- 5. Kirchheimer as a theorist of democratic alternatives -- 6. Conclusion: Distant reading -- Chapter 8: Confrontations Across Borders (1935-1937) -- 1. Kirchheimer camouflaged as Schmitt -- 2. Sidelining Schmitt -- 3. Kirchheimer's political activities in Paris and his arrival in New York -- 4. Conclusion: In waiting positions -- Chapter 9: From Leviathan to Behemoth (1938-1942) -- 1. Kirchheimer's early studies in criminology -- 2. Thomas Hobbes and the authoritarian state in Schmitt's Weimar works -- 3. Schmitt's second thoughts about Leviathan -- 4. Kirchheimer's Behemoth in Punishment and Social Structure -- 5. Controversies over Nazism at the Institute of Social Research -- 6. Conclusion: A message across the Atlantic -- Chapter 10: Practicing Antisemitism and Analyzing Antisemitism -- 1. Schmitt's view of Kirchheimer: The "vile Jew" -- 2. Schmitt as an antisemitic Nazi propagandist -- 3. Kirchheimer's research on antisemitism at the Institute of Social Research -- 4. Kirchheimer's Policy of the Catholic Church Toward the Jews -- 5. Kirchheimer's contribution to the Frankfurt School's research -- 6. Conclusion: The modernity of Catholic antisemitism -- Chapter 11: Preparing Germany for New Wars (1936-1939) -- 1. Schmitt's "specifically National Socialist insights" -- 2. Challenging the discriminating concept of war -- 3. Echoes in Geneva and New York -- 4. Conclusion: Germany attacking Poland.; Chapter 12: From Großraum Theory to the Escalation of World War II (1939-1942) -- 1. Early critical theory's disregard of international politics -- 2. Schmitt's Großraum theory -- 3. Schmitt and the further escalation of the war -- 4. Kirchheimer on Schmitt's apologia for the Nazi wars -- 5. Kirchheimer and Neumann's Behemoth on the concept of Großraum -- 6. Schmitt lying in wait again -- 7. Kirchheimer's career problems -- 8. On the verge of Germany's liberation -- 9. Conclusion: Waiting for the end of the war -- Chapter 13: On the Road to the Nuremberg Trials (1943-1945) -- 1. Schmitt's wait‐and‐see stance -- 2. Bringing German war criminals to justice -- 3. Defending a German war criminal -- 4. Preparing for the trials -- 5. Conclusion: Scenes of an indirect dialogue -- Postwar Democracies -- Chapter 14: Dealing with the Future-and the Past (1946-1948) -- 1. Denazifying and governing occupied Germany -- 2. Schmitt's imprisonments and his return to Plettenberg -- 3. Post‐Holocaust antisemitism -- 4. Kirchheimer's struggle with the FBI -- 5. Kirchheimer's dashed hopes for a socialist democratic Germany -- 6. Conclusion: Different disillusions -- Chapter 15: Renewed Contact and Controversy (1949-1956) -- 1. Amnesty as amnesia -- 2. Evaluating the new West German democracy -- 3. Meeting face to face in Plettenberg -- 4. Schmitt's return to the public eye -- 5. Kirchheimer as a political scientist -- 6. At a distance: More correspondence and another meeting -- 7. Kirchheimer as a professor of political science in the US -- 8. Criticism of Schmittianism in German legal thought -- 9. Conclusion: The new constellation -- Chapter 16: Juridification and Political Justice (1957-1961) -- 1. Debating each other in public again -- 2. Resuming correspondence in 1958 -- 3. Schmitt on political justice -- 4. The ; backstory to Kirchheimer's book.; 5. The ambivalences of political justice -- 6. In dialogue with Hannah Arendt -- 7. Kirchheimer as a professor at the New School for Social Research -- 8. Conclusion: A Smendian solution to a Schmittian problem -- Chapter 17: The Final Break (1962-1965) -- 1. Kirchheimer as a professor at Columbia University -- 2. The conflict over George Schwab's dissertation -- 3. Second‐order observations -- 4. On partisans and political partisanship -- 5. Against consumer society -- 6. Kirchheimer's untimely death -- 7. Conclusion: Becoming Schmitt's friend posthumously -- Conclusion -- Chapter 18: Kirchheimer's Strategies for Debating Schmitt -- 1. Cherry‐picking and reframing -- 2. Frontal attack -- 3. Condemning Schmitt as a Nazi propagandist -- 4. Deliberate disregard -- 5. Redirecting Schmitt's ideas beyond their original horizon -- 6. Conclusion: Defining Legacies -- Appendix -- Abbreviations -- List of German Courts -- Glossary -- Sources and Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Personal Sources -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.
• Sommario/riassunto: To date, the relationship between Otto Kirchheimer and Carl Schmitt has invariably been described as friendly, despite their political differences. Kirchheimer has even been attributed the role of the godfather of today's left-Schmittianism. With reference to previously unknown archival materials, conversations with personal contacts, and through a new reading of the theoretical works of both authors, including an analysis of the Nazi vocabulary used by Schmitt, Hubertus Buchstein exposes this view as a politically motivated legend. Buchstein claims that the best way to characterize their relationship from their first meeting in Bonn in 1926 up until Kirchheimer's death in 1965 is as enduring enmity - in a political, a theoretical, and even a personal sense.