Acknowledgements --Introduction -- 1. Writing Carl Schmitt -- 2. The return of Carl Schmitt -- 3. Spatializing the political -- 4. Liberal Leviathan -- 5. Nazi Behemoth -- 6. Großraum -- 7. Spatial histories -- 8. A new Nomos of the Earth? -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
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 cont
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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