Carl Schmitt and the Jews: The """"Jewish Question, """" the Holocaust, and German Legal Theory

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Raphael Gross Joel Golb

Carl Schmitt and the Jews

The """"Jewish Question, """" the Holocaust, and German Legal Theory

Raphael Gross, Joel Golb, Peter C. Caldwell

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English

University of Wisconsin Press
02 July 2007

History; History of ideas; Jewish studies; Political science & theory; Jurisprudence & general issues

Series: George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas

German jurist and legal theorist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) significantly influenced Western political and legal thinking in the last century, yet his life and work have also stirred considerable controversy. While his ideas have been used and diffused by prominent philosophers on both the left and the right, such as Jurgen Habermas and Leo Strauss, his Nazi-era past, especially his active efforts to remove Jewish influence from German law, has cast a cloud over his life and oeuvre. Still, his many supporters have generally been successful in claiming that Schmitt's was an """"antisemitism of opportunity,"""" a temporary affectation to gain favor with the Nazis. In """"Carl Schmitt and the Jews"""", available in English for the first time, historian Raphael Gross vigorously repudiates this """"opportunism thesis."""" Through a reading of Schmitt's corpus, some of which became available only after his death, Gross highlights the importance of the """"Jewish Question"""" on the breadth of Schmitt's work. According to Gross, Schmitt's antisemitism was at the core of his work - before, during, and after the Nazi era. His influential polarities of """"friend and foe,"""" """"law and nomos,"""" """"behemoth and Leviathan,"""" and """"ketechon and Antichrist"""" emerge from a conceptual template in which """"the Jew"""" is defined as adversary, undermining the Christian order with secularization. The presence of this template at the heart of Schmitt's work, Gross contends, calls for a major reassessment of Schmitt's role within contemporary cultural and legal theory.

By: Raphael Gross
Foreword by: Peter C. Caldwell
Translated by: Joel Golb
Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 620g
ISBN: 9780299222406
ISBN 10: 0299222403
Series: George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 02 July 2007
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Raphael Gross is director of the Leo Baeck Institute in London, director of the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt, and reader in history at the University of Sussex. Joel Golb is an independent editor and literary historian. He lives in Berlin.

Reviews for Carl Schmitt and the Jews: The """"Jewish Question, """" the Holocaust, and German Legal Theory

No one interested in Carl Schmitt can afford to ignore Raphael Gross' s powerful discussion of how intimately linked were Schmitt' s anti-Semitism and his political theory. Gross persuasively argues that Schmitt' s post 1933 writings on the Jewish origins of universalism and positivism had a central importance for both Nazi aims and his work as a whole. A new Afterword demonstrates that Gross' s work has elicited a broad discussion and inserts his own moral and intellectual voice into contemporary debates. -- Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University