Category Archives: Carl Schmitt

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

Posted on December 6, 2025 by stuartelden

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

Posted on September 11, 2025 by stuartelden

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

Posted on May 29, 2025 by stuartelden

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

Posted on March 24, 2024 by stuartelden

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

Posted on December 22, 2023 by stuartelden

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

Posted on November 17, 2023 by stuartelden

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

Posted on May 4, 2020 by stuartelden

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

Posted on February 13, 2018 by stuartelden

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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Carl Schmitt, Land and Sea – a new translation

Posted on November 9, 2016 by stuartelden

In 2015 Telos Press published a new translation of Carl Schmitt, Land and Sea: A World-Historical Meditation. While in Cambridge earlier this week I was kindly given a copy by the translator, Samuel Garrett Zeitlin. Originally published in 1942, at … Continue reading →

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Books received – Schmitt, Kurelić, Porchnev, JUCS, Annals, RP, The Funambulist

Posted on September 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Carl Schmitt’s Dialogues on Power and Space, Zoran Kurelić (ed.), Violence, Art and Politics (a gift from one of the contributors, Krešimir Petković), Boris Porchnev’s Les soulèvements populaires en France de 1623 à 1648 (see why here), and recent issues of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Annals … Continue reading →

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