Abbreviations -
Translator’s Preface -
A White Raven: The Strange Life of the German State Theorist Carl Schmitt -
Part One:
That ‘false and arrogant idea “I am”’: Schmitt’s Rise in the Wilhelminian Era -
1. An ‘Obscure Young Man from a Modest Background’ -
2. The Law of Practice -
3. Apotheosis of the Poet, Rant against Literary Figures: the ‘Untimely Poet’ and the ‘Received Wisdom of the Educated’ -
4. On the Eve of the Great War: State, Church and Individual as Points of Reference -
5. Düsseldorf: Living in a State of Exception -
6. World War and Defeatism: Carl Schmitt in Munich -
7. Strasbourg, the State of Siege and a Decision in Favour of Catholicism -
8. Political Romanticists 1815/1919 -
Part Two:
Beyond Bourgeois Existence Schmitt’s Life and Work during the Weimar Republic-
9. A Permanent Position? The Handelshochschule in Munich -
10. A ‘Faithful Gypsy’ in Greifswald -
11. Arrival in Bonn? Schmitt’s Turn towards the Catholic Church -
12. Schmitt as a Teacher in Bonn -
13. From Status Quo to Democratic ‘Myth’ –
14. The Yield of the Bonn Years:
15. From ‘Ice Floe to Ice Floe’: Signals in the Berlin Maelstrom -
16. Reconstructing the ‘Strong’ State -
17. Within the Journalistic Circles of Weimar’s Last Days -
18. Carl Schmitt as an Actor During the Rule by Presidential Decree -
Part Three:
In The Belly of the Leviathan: Schmitt’s Involvement in National Socialism -
19. After 30 January 1933 -
20. Schmitt’s Resistible Rise to the Position of ‘Crown Jurist’ -
21. The ‘Year of Construction’? Beginning and End of the Juridico-Institutional Provision of Meaning -
22. Anti-Semitic Provision of Meaning -
23. A New Turn with Hobbes? Meaning and Failure of Schmitt’s Commitment to National Socialism -
24. The Right to Power? Großraum Order and Empire Formation –
25. The Captain held Hostage? Carl Schmitt’s Farewell to the ‘Reich’ -
26. Last Writings under National Socialism -
Part Four:
‘One man remains’: Schmitt’s Slow Retreat after 1945 -
27. Detention and ‘Asylum’
28. From Benito Cereno to Hamlet: The ‘Comeback’ of the Intellectual?
29. Private Seminars in Plettenberg: Schmitt’s Renewed Influence on Pupils in the Federal Republic
30. The Partisan in Conversation -
31. Past Eighty: A Look Back to Old Questions -
Appendix.