Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt

1. Introduction: Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and Three Conceptions of Politics Johan Tralau 2. Schmitt's Behemoth Toma Mastnak 3. Hobbes and Schmitt on the Name and Nature of Leviathan Revisited Patricia Springborg 4. Re-Imagining Leviathan: Schmitt and Oakeshott on Hobbes and the Problem of Political Order Jan-Werner Muller 5. Hobbes's Paradox Redux Roberto Farneti 6. The Liberal Slip of Thomas Hobbes's Authoritarian Pen Gabriella Slomp 7. Does Hobbes have a Concept of the Enemy? Stephen Holmes 8. From Roman Catholicism to Mechanized Oppression: On Political-Theological Disjunctures in Schmitt's Weimar Thought John P. McCormick 9. Hobbes, Schmitt, and the Paradox of Religious Liberality Karsten Fischer 10. The Significance of Hobbes's Conception of Power John Dunn 11. Order, the Ocean, and Satan: Schmitt's Hobbes, National Socialism, and the Enigmatic Ambiguity of Friend and Foe Johan Tralau

LEVIATHAN (cipher) · Nazism · Order (exchange) · Political science · Political theology · Politics · State of exception · Theology · Law · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Religious studies · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy · carl Schmitt (1888-1985) · thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)