The Oxford handbook of Carl Schmitt / edited by Jens Meierhenrich, London School of Economics and political science and Oliver Simons, Columbia University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A Chronology of Carl Schmitt's Life -- A List of Carl Schmitt's Writings -- "A Fanatic of Order in an Epoch of Confusing Turmoil" : The Political, Legal, and Cultural Thought of Carl Schmitt / Jens Meierhenrich and Oliver Simons -- A "Catholic Layman of German Nationality and Citizenship"? : Carl Schmitt and the Religiosity of Life / Reinhard Mehring -- The "True Enemy" : Antisemitism in Carl Schmitt's Life and Thought / Raphael Gross -- Schmitt's Diaries / Joseph W. Bendersky -- Carl Schmitt in Plettenberg / Christian Linder -- Fearing the Disorder of Things : The Development of Carl Schmitt's Institutional Theory, 1919-1942 / Jens Meierhenrich -- Carl Schmitt's Political Theory of Dictatorship / Duncan Kelly -- The Political Theology of Carl Schmitt / Miguel Vatter -- Teaching in Vain : Carl Schmitt, Thomas Hobbes, and the Theory of the Sovereign State / John P. McCormick -- Concepts of the Political in Twentieth-Century European Thought / Samuel Moyn -- Carl Schmitt's Defense of Democracy / William Rasch -- Same/Other versus Friend/Enemy : Levinas contra Schmitt / Aryeh Botwinick -- Carl Schmitt's Concepts of War : A Categorical Failure / Benno Teschke -- Carl Schmitt's Concept of History / Matthias Lievens -- What's "Left" in Schmitt? From Aversion to Appropriation in Contemporary Political Theory / Matthew G. Specter -- A Jurist Confronting Himself : Carl Schmitt's Jurisprudential Thought / Giorgio Agamben -- Carl Schmitt and the Weimar Constitution / Ulrich K. Preuss -- The Concept of the Rule-of-Law State in Carl Schmitt's Verfassungslehre / David Dyzenhaus -- Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt : Growing Discord, Culminating in the "Guardian" Controversy of 1931 / Stanley L. Paulson -- States of Emergency / William E. Scheuerman -- Politonomy / Martin Loughlin -- Carl Schmitt and International Law / Martti Koskenniemi -- Demystifying Schmitt / Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule -- Carl Schmitt and Modernity / Friedrich Balke -- Is "the Political" a Romantic Concept? : Novalis's Faith and Love or The King and Queen with Reference to Carl Schmitt / Rüdiger Campe -- Walter Benjamin's Esteem for Carl Schmitt / Horst Bredekamp -- Legitimacy of the Modern Age? : Hans Blumenberg and Carl Schmitt / Alexander Schmitz -- Tragedy as Exception in Carl Schmitt's Hamlet or Hecuba / David Pan --At the Limits of Rhetoric : Authority, Commonplace, and the Role of Literature in Carl Schmitt / Johannes Türk -- Carl Schmitt's Spatial Rhetoric / Oliver Simons.