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Ex Captivitate Salus: Experiences, 1945 - 47
Carl Schmitt
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Paperback. When Germany was defeated in 1945, both the Russians and the Americans undertook mass internments in the territories they occupied. The Americans called their approach 'automatic arrest'. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; JP; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
When Germany was defeated in 1945, both the Russians and the Americans undertook mass internments in the territories they occupied. The Americans called their approach `automatic arrest'. Carl Schmitt, although not belonging to the circles subject to automatic arrest, was held in one of these camps in the years 1945-46, and then, in March 1947, in the prison of the international tribunal in Nuremberg, as witness and `possible defendant'. A formal charge was never brought against him. Schmitt's way of coping in the years of isolation was to write this book, clarifying his own position on certain fundamental questions. ... Read more
When Germany was defeated in 1945, both the Russians and the Americans undertook mass internments in the territories they occupied. The Americans called their approach `automatic arrest'. Carl Schmitt, although not belonging to the circles subject to automatic arrest, was held in one of these camps in the years 1945-46, and then, in March 1947, in the prison of the international tribunal in Nuremberg, as witness and `possible defendant'. A formal charge was never brought against him. Schmitt's way of coping in the years of isolation was to write this book, clarifying his own position on certain fundamental questions. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509511648
SKU
V9781509511648
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About Carl Schmitt
Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important and influential political theorists of the 20th century. His many works published in English include The Concept of the Political, Political Theology and On Dictatorship.
Reviews for Ex Captivitate Salus: Experiences, 1945 - 47
Ex Captivitate Salus is Carl Schmitts poetic, apocalyptic, seductive but ultimately unsatisfying attempt at self-exculpation after the Fall of the Third Reich ? which, in its early years, Schmitt served so faithfully. John McCormick, The University of Chicago