Category Archives: Carl Schmitt

The Books on Territory I Didn’t Write, and the Related Articles I Did

At various points over the last twenty-five years or so, I’ve debated writing different books on territory. Many of the articles I’ve written on this topic were early versions of parts of the books I did write on territory, but … Continue reading

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Benjamin Arditi, The Book of Others: Schmitt, Althusser, Laclau, Rancière and Politics – Routledge, October 2025

Benjamin Arditi, The Book of Others: Schmitt, Althusser, Laclau, Rancière and Politics – Routledge, October 2025 In The Book of Others, Benjamin Arditi examines the enduring theoretical influence of four major political thinkers—Carl Schmitt, Louis Althusser, Ernesto Laclau, and Jacques Rancière—whom … Continue reading

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Carl Schmitt, State Composition and Collapse of the Second Reich: The Victory of the Bourgeois Citizen over the Soldier – trans Samuel Garrett Zeitlin, Polity, December 2025

Carl Schmitt, State Composition and Collapse of the Second Reich: The Victory of the Bourgeois Citizen over the Soldier – trans Samuel Garrett Zeitlin, Polity, December 2025 Newly published for the first time in English translation, Carl Schmitt’s 1934 tract, … Continue reading

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Jeffrey Andrew Barash, The Politics of Historical Interpretation:  Reflections on Ideology and the Perplexities of Political Myth – De Gruyter Brill, August 2025

Jeffrey Andrew Barash, The Politics of Historical Interpretation:  Reflections on Ideology and the Perplexities of Political Myth – De Gruyter Brill, August 2025 This book focuses on political presuppositions animating modern historical reflection in Germany that underwent sharp radicalization in … Continue reading

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Emanuel Quashie, The War on Terror in the Caribbean: Schmittian Perspectives – Routledge, May 2025

Emanuel Quashie, The War on Terror in the Caribbean: Schmittian Perspectives – Routledge, May 2025 This book offers a multifaceted understanding of how the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent War on Terror affected the Caribbean. This book dives deeper into … Continue reading

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Valentina Antoniol, Foucault critico di Schmitt. Genealogie e guerra – Rubbetino, March 2024

I’ve mentioned the French version before – Valentina Antoniol, Foucault et la guerre: À partir de Schmitt, contre Schmitt, Éditions Mimesis, November 2023 – but the Italian is now published, and I understand it is longer than the French: Valentina Antoniol, Foucault critico di Schmitt. Genealogie … Continue reading

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Books received – Antoniol, Foucault, Benveniste, Woodard

Valentina Antoniol, Foucault et la guerre: À partir de Schmitt, contre Schmitt; Michel Foucault, The Japan Lectures, edited by John Rajchman; and second-hand copies of Benveniste’s Problems in General Linguistics, Autour d’Émile Benveniste and Roger Woodard (ed.), The Ancient Languages … Continue reading

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Valentina Antoniol, Foucault et la guerre: À partir de Schmitt, contre Schmitt – Éditions Mimesis, November 2023

Valentina Antoniol, Foucault et la guerre: À partir de Schmitt, contre Schmitt – Éditions Mimesis, November 2023 Cet essai est consacré aux analyses de Michel Foucault sur la guerre, un sujet qui n’a pas toujours reçu l’attention qu’il mérite et qui joue … Continue reading

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Terrains and Territories – Stuart Elden and Nico Buitendag discussion at Undisciplined

Terrains and Territories – Stuart Elden and Nico Buitendag discussion at Undisciplined Many thanks to Nico for this invitation, and for a wide-ranging discussion that touches on nearly everything I’ve worked on. This is part of a series of discussions … Continue reading

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Books received (2) – Lacan, Sartre, Schmitt, Carver, Foucault, Mukerji, Husserl

Books in recompense for review work for Polity and Routledge, including Lacan, Sartre, Schmitt, Carver, Foucault, Mukerji, Husserl. Lacan’s The Triumph of Religion and Transference are fairly recent translations, as is Carl Schmitt’s Ex Captivitate Salus, by Matthew Hannah. Terrell … Continue reading

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