On Schmitt and Space

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-415-78450-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 233 mm x 157 mm, Gewicht: 466 g

Reihe: Interventions

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 context, controversial involvement in Weimar politics and disastrous support for the Nazi regime. It argues that spatial concepts play a crucial structural role throughout Schmitt’s work, from his well-known analyses of sovereign power and states of exception to his often overlooked spatial history of modernity. Locating a fundamental relationship between space and ‘the political’ lies at the core of his thought.

The book explores the critical insight that Schmitt’s spatial thought bears on some of the key political questions of the twentieth century whilst tracking his profound and enduring influence on key debates on sovereignty, international relations, war and the nature of world order at the start of the twenty first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Minca, Claudio

Rowan, Rory (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

Rowan, Rory

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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? Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Claudio Minca is Professor and Head of Cultural Geography at Wegeningen University, the Netherlands.

Rory Rowan is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.