The Concept of the Political - Carl Schmitt

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🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Alyson and Breht summarize, discuss, and criticize Carl Schmitt's famous work of political philosophy, The Concept of the Political. Schmitt was a German jurist, political theorist, and prominent member of the Nazi Party.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Red Minus, my name is Allison and I am here with my co-host Brett.
0:20.8	And today we are continuing this little series that we've been doing where we have been
0:24.6	working through reactionary thinkers who have been highly influential in political
0:29.3	theory and political philosophy. We previously covered Nietzsche as well as Julius
0:34.7	Ebola and we are now turning to a very different reactionary, which is Karl Schmitt.
0:40.1	Briefly for those who aren't aware, Karl Schmitt was an influential German legal and
0:45.1	political theorist who developed several theories of sovereignty and theories of politics
0:51.1	in the state. He was a member of the Nazi Party during his time and actually became the
0:56.5	president of the Association of National Socialist German Juris and also interestingly has had a
1:02.0	massive impact on mainstream political thought and mainstream political philosophy despite these
1:07.2	associations. Schmitt has been a very very influential thinker and with the sort of influence that he's
1:13.8	left behind, we think it's worth wrestling with his texts as we've wrestled with other reactionary
1:18.4	texts to see what's happening in them, to see what's going on and to try to understand what is
1:23.9	going on in them from a Marxist perspective. So Schmitt is who we will be turning to now
1:28.6	and Brett has some kind of opening thoughts that I think are very important for framing
1:34.0	an engagement with Schmitt given his legacy in who he was. Yeah and I think it's important to set
1:39.6	this up before we get into the details because while it is true that Schmitt was literally a
1:45.0	card carrying Nazi and member of the Nazi Party, it should be remembered that this text and
1:51.2	and of itself was written before the rise to power officially of Naziism. It was written during
1:56.2	the Weimar Republic years and and I also think it's important just to preface up front that he was
2:03.4	a Nazi but also to separate that out as much as we can from this text and of itself written before
2:09.7	he was technically a Nazi and is not like mine comp, right? It's not even like Julius Evela's work
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