The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol by George Schwab
The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol (Contributions in Political Science) by George Schwab
Praeger | September 30, 1996 | English | ISBN: 0313300577 | 138 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Praeger | September 30, 1996 | English | ISBN: 0313300577 | 138 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Carl Schmitt, the Thomas Hobbes of the 20th century, joined the Nazi party in 1933 and aspired to become the crown jurist and political philosopher of the Third Reich. But, because of his anti-Nazi past, friendships with Jews and Marxists, and contempt for biological racism, Schmitt was severely attacked by the SS in 1936 and warned to stop posing as a National Socialist thinker. Fearful of what this might imply in the rapidly evolving one-party SS state, Schmitt began to distance himself from his National Socialist adventure—even tempered his recently acquired anti-Semitism—and carefully started to reconnect himself in 1937 and 1938 to the pre-1933 Schmitt.