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Carl Schmitt - Ex Captivitate Salus: Experiences, 1945 - 47 - 9781509511631 - V9781509511631
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Ex Captivitate Salus: Experiences, 1945 - 47

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Description for Ex Captivitate Salus: Experiences, 1945 - 47 Hardback. 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 in the circles subject to automatic arrest, was held in one of these camps in the years 1945–6 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 throughout the years of isolation was to write this book. 

In Ex Captivitate Salus, or Deliverance from Captivity, Schmitt considers a ... Read more

This reflective work sheds new light on Schmitt’s thought and personal situation at the beginning of a period of exile from public life that only ended with his death in 1985. It will be of great value to the many students and scholars in political theory and law who continue to study and appreciate this seminal theorist of the twentieth century.

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Product Details

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509511631
SKU
V9781509511631
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Ref
99-33

About Carl Schmitt
Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important and influential political theorists of the twentieth 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 Schmitt's 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

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