On Schmitt and Space

Bibliographic Data

ID19902564
AuthorsC Minca (0000-0001-6619-6614, Wageningen University & Research), Rory Rowan (University of Zurich)
Year2015
Pages286
Publication date2015-07-24
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueOn Schmitt and Space (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203796207
OpenAlexW1822634782
Open LibraryOL33533494M
ISBN9780203796207
LanguageEN
Citations received20

This book represents the first comprehensive study of the influential German legal and political thinker Carl Schmitt’s spatial thought, offering the first systematic examination from a Geographic perspective of one of the most important political thinkers of the twentieth century. It charts the development of Schmitt’s spatial thinking from his early work on secularization and the emergence of the modern European state to his post war analysis of the spatial basis of global order and international law, whilst situating his thought in relation to his changing biographical and intellectual context, controversial involvement in Weimar politics and disastrous support for the Nazi regime. It argues that spatial concepts play a crucial structural role throughout Schmitt’s work, from his well-known analyses of sovereign power and states of exception to his often overlooked spatial history of modernity. Locating a fundamental relationship between space and ‘the political’ lies at the core of his thought. The book explores the critical insight that Schmitt’s spatial thought bears on some of the key political questions of the twentieth century whilst tracking his profound and enduring influence on key debates on sovereignty, international relations, war and the nature of world order at the start of the twenty first century

Linguistics · Physics · Quantum mechanics · Schmitt trigger · Space (punctuation) · Literature and Cultural Memory · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy · carl Schmitt (1888-1985) · Essays · General · Government · History · Idéhistoriska aspekter · International organization · International Relations · Internationella relationer · National · Political Geography · Political science · Politisk filosofi · Reference · Sovereignty · Statsvetenskap · Suveränitet · Teori, filosofi · War (philosophy)

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