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Translated by Greg Johnson

We met Carl Schmitt in the Westphalian village of Plettenberg, the place of his birth and retirement. For four remarkable hours we conversed with the man who remains unquestionably the greatest political and legal thinker of our time. Read more …

Published: July 11, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Carl Schmitt, geopolitics, Guillaume Faye, North American New Right, on Schmitt, philosophy, political philosophy, Robert Steuckers, translations | Comments closed

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Reflections on Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political

Greg Johnson

Carl Schmitt, 1888–1985

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“Why can’t we all get along?”–Rodney King

Carl Schmitt’s short book The Concept of the Political (1932) is one of the most important works of 20th century political philosophy.

The aim of The Concept of the Political is the defense of politics from utopian aspirations to abolish politics. Anti-political utopianism includes all forms of liberalism as well as international socialism, global capitalism, anarchism, and pacifism: in short, all social philosophies that aim at a universal order in which conflict is abolished.

Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political

Michael O'Meara

Carl Schmitt

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Note: The following short synthesis of Schmitt’s classic essay The Concept of the Political stems, in part, from a recent discussion with the Bay Area Nationalist Book Club.

However it is posed, the question of the political is always about the most important issue facing every people.

The political, though, is not to be confused with “politics” or “party-politics,” which speaks to individual or special interest in parliamentary gas houses.