Reviews for Carl Schmitt, theorist for the Reich

The average rating for Carl Schmitt, theorist for the Reich based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-09-25 00:00:00 Todd Mills "'An escatological dread had seized many even before the horrors of the World War became a reality. ... Right was transformed into power, faith into calculation, truth into a general recognition of accuracy, beauty became good taste. ... In place of the distinction between good and evil there appeared a sublime difference between usefulness and destructiveness.'" (quoting Schmitt's Nordlicht, 18) "'I do not recall stating that the enemy should be destroyed. ... In an atmosphere of deception, I wanted to speak with simple human and intellectual honesty and in writing this work I fell that I acted only as a sole retriever of an ancient prudence.'" (quoting Schmitt to Herman Heller, 93) "'You see, I have done exactly the same thing: I drank of the Nazi bacillus, but it had not infected me.'" (quoting Schmitt to Russian interrogators, using example of Max von Pettenkofer, 264) "'If the situation becomes so completely abnormal and no one from the outside protects [an individual] from the terror within, then he must determine for himself the limits of his loyalty, especially when the situation becomes so abnormal that one no longer knows the real position of his closest friend.'" (quoting Schmitt, 267) "'He could neither be nazified or denazified.'" (quoting a newspaper article on Schmitt, 274)

Review # 2 was written on 2013-12-10 00:00:00 Jerome Etherton Brutus makes some decent points regarding representation.