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Carl Schmitt, the Thomas Hobbes of the 20th century, joined the Nazi party in 1933 and aspired to become the crown jurist and political philosopher of the Third Reich. But, because of his anti-Nazi past, friendships with Jews and Marxists, and contempt for biological racism, Schmitt was severely attacked by the SS in 1936 and warned to stop posing as a National Socialist thinker. Fearful of what this might imply in the rapidly evolving one-party SS state, Schmitt began to distance himself from his National Socialist adventure—even tempered his recently acquired anti-Semitism—and carefully started to reconnect himself in 1937 and 1938 to the pre-1933 Schmitt. Writing in 1938 under the pretext of studying the significance of the symbol of the leviathan in Hobbes's theory of state, Schmitt alluded to the demise of the Third Reich because of its rapid transformation into a totalitarian polity. As Schmitt recognized, in this state, the Hobbesian protection-obedience axiom was being heavily tilted in favor of obedience at the expense of protection. When this occurred, Schmitt observed, the soul of a people…betakes itself on the 'secret road' that leads inward. Then grows the counterforce
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- Author
- Carl Schmitt
- Publisher
- Greenwood Press
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780313300578
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Social Science, Home & Lifestyle
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (15 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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