Category Archives: Carl Schmitt

Earth – rethinking geopolitics

Posted on January 17, 2013 by stuartelden

Here’s my abstract for CityState: A Lexical Workshop later this year in Tel Aviv: Earth Geopolitics has, today, become effectively a synonym for global politics. Armchair strategists still come up with grand plans for understanding and changing the world; critical geopolitics … Continue reading →

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Schmitt in France – Jean-François Kervégan

Posted on September 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Actu Philosophia has a piece on one of France’s main Carl Schmitt commentators, Jean-François Kervégan.

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Peter Gratton – Spinoza and the Biopolitical Roots of Modernity audio available

Posted on August 25, 2012 by stuartelden

The audio recording of Peter Gratton’s talk ‘Spinoza and the Biopolitical Roots of Modernity’ at UWS is now available (from here, via’s Peter’s blog). Abstract: Much has been written about bio-political sovereignty in the wake of Giorgio Agamben’s work, which relies, … Continue reading →

Posted in Baruch Spinoza, Carl Schmitt, Conferences, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Society and Space | 2 Comments

Heidegger and Schmitt correspondence (again)

Posted on August 11, 2012 by stuartelden

Twenty-five years after they first published it, Telos are again highlighting the letter Martin Heidegger sent to Carl Schmitt in August 1933. The point of the letter was to thank Schmitt for sending a copy of The Concept of the … Continue reading →

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Christaller and Nazism

Posted on August 10, 2012 by stuartelden

Jeremy Crampton has an interesting post at Open Geography about the links between Walter Christaller and Nazism. It begins with a link to an important paper by Trevor Barnes and Claudio Minca on Christaller and Carl Schmitt forthcoming in the Annals of … Continue reading →

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Mitchell Dean reviews Agamben, The Kingdom and the Glory

Posted on August 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Mitchell Dean, “Governmentality Meets Theology: ‘The King Reigns, but He Does Not Govern’”, Theory, Culture & Society, May 2012 vol. 29 no. 3 145-158 (requires subscription; via Foucault News). A detailed review with some close discussion of the relation of … Continue reading →

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Tracy B. Strong – Politics Without Vision reviewed

Posted on May 19, 2012 by stuartelden

Very positive review in THES. The book – full details at the University of Chicago Press page and press release – discusses Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Vladimir Lenin, Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. Strong’s book Friedrich … Continue reading →

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Eric Santner – The Royal Remains

Posted on May 11, 2012 by stuartelden

I previously knew Santner’s work from his study of Sebald, On Creaturely Life. This more recent book covers similar ground to the Manow book I mentioned a few days ago – the persistence of the ‘two bodies’ idea explored by … Continue reading →

Posted in Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Roberto Esposito, William Shakespeare | 1 Comment

Political Theology and Early Modernity

Posted on May 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting looking collection edited by Graham Hammill and Julia Reinhard Lupton, with a postface by Etienne Balibar. Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and … Continue reading →

Posted in Baruch Spinoza, Books, Carl Schmitt, Etienne Balibar, Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, Walter Benjamin, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

Schmitt book now in paperback

Posted on March 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos, edited by Stephen Legg, is now available in paperback. You can also preview the introduction there. The book includes a slightly revised version of my piece on Schmitt that first appeared in … Continue reading →

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