The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt collects thirty original chapters on the diverse oeuvre of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century.

• List of Contributors


• A Chronology of Carl Schmitt's Life


• A List of Carl Schmitt's Writings


• Part I-Introduction


• 1 "A Fanatic of Order in an Epoch of Confusing Turmoil":


• The Political, Legal, and Cultural Thought of Carl Schmitt Jens Meierhenrich and


• Oliver Simons


• Part II-the lives of Carl Schmitt


• 2 "Catholic Layman of German Nationality and


• Citizenship"? Carl Schmitt and the Religiosity of Life Reinhard Mehring


• 3 The "True Enemy": Antisemitism in Carl Schmitt's Life


• and Thought Raphael Gross


• 4 Schmitt's Diaries Joseph W. Bendersky


• 5 Carl Schmitt in Plettenberg Christian Linder


• Part III-the political thought of Carl schmitt


• 6 Fearing the Disorder of Things: The Development of


• Carl Schmitt's Institutional Theory, 1919-1938 Jens Meierhenrich


• 7 Carl Schmitt's Political Theory of Dictatorship Duncan Kelly


• 8 The Political Theology of Carl Schmitt Miguel Vatter


• 9 Teaching in Vain: Carl Schmitt, Thomas


• Hobbes, and the Theory of the Sovereign State John P. McCormick


• 10 Concepts of the Political in Twentieth-Century


• European Thought Samuel Moyn


• 11 Carl Schmitt's Defense of Democracy William Rasch


• 12 Same/Other versus Friend/Enemy:


• Levinas contra Schmitt Aryeh Botwinick


• 13 Carl Schmitt's Concepts of War: A Categorical Failure Benno Teschke


• 14 Carl Schmitt's Concept of History Matthias Lievens


• 15 What's "Left" in Schmitt? From Aversion to


• Appropriation in Contemporary Political Theory Matthew G. Specter


• Part IV-the legal thought of Carl Schmitt


• 16 A Jurist Confronting Himself: Carl Schmitt's


• Jurisprudential Thought Giorgio Agamben


• 17 Carl Schmitt and the Weimar Constitution Ulrich K. Preuss


• 18 The Concept of the Rule-of-Law State in


• Carl Schmitt's Verfassungslehre David Dyzenhaus


• 19 Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt: Growing Discord,


• Culminating in the "Guardian" Controversy


• of 1931 Stanley L. Paulson


• 20 States of Emergency William E. Scheuerman


• 21 Politonomy Martin Loughlin


• 22 Carl Schmitt and International Law Martti Koskenniemi


• 23 Demystifying Schmitt Eric A. Posner and


• Adrian Vermeule


• Part V-the cultural thought of carl schmitt


• 24 Carl Schmitt and Modernity Friedrich Balke


• 25 Is "the Political" a Romantic Concept? Novalis's Faith and Love


• or The King and Queen with Reference to Carl Schmitt Rüdiger Campe


• 26 Walter Benjamin's Esteem for Carl Schmitt Horst Bredekamp


• 27 Legitimacy of the Modern Age? Hans Blumenberg and


• Carl Schmitt Alexander Schmitz


• 28 Tragedy as Exception in Carl Schmitt's


• Hamlet or Hecuba David Pan


• 29 At the Limits of Rhetoric: Authority, Commonplace,


• and the Role of Literature in Carl Schmitt Johannes Türk


• 30 Carl Schmitt's Spatial Rhetoric Oliver Simons


• Bibliography


• Index

Oliver Simons is Associate Professor of Germanic Languages, Columbia University.
Jens Meierhenrich is Associate Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics.