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Carl Schmitt
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Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) was a German jurist, politician, university teacher, and philosopher. Born in Plettenberg, he was a member of the Nazi Party and practiced Catholicism. He held academic positions at the Technical University of Munich, University of Bonn, University of Cologne, and University of Greifswald. Schmitt earned a Juris Doctor and habilitation, having been educated at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
His notable works include *The Concept of the Political*, *Politische Theologie*, *Verfassungslehre*, *La unidad del mundo*, *Du libéralisme autoritaire*, and *Die Rheinlande als Objekt internationaler Politik*. He is associated with the quote, "Sovereign is he who decides on the exception." Schmitt worked in Berlin and Plettenberg, where he also died.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 11 Jul 1888
- Died
- 7 Apr 1985
- Works
- 255
Top works
- Politische Theologie
- La unidad del mundo
- Verfassungslehre
- Du libéralisme autoritaire
- Die Rheinlande als Objekt internationaler Politik
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1870-09-28
- Active to
- 1958-08-17
Discography
- Psaume XLVII / La Tragédie de Salomé1973
- Quintette, op. 511982
- Pièces Romantiques / 3 Valses Nocturnes / Mirages1986
- French Music for Clarinet and Piano1987
- La Chute de la maison Usher1987
- Schmitt: Psaume XLVII / La Tragédie de Salomé / Debussy: Khamma1987
- Antonius & Cleopatra1988
- Aubert: Sillages / Dukas/Roussel/Bartok/Schmitt/Malipiero/Goossens: Tombeau de Claude Debussy / Schmitt: Tombeau de Paul Dukas / Decaux: Clairs de lune1990
- La Tragédie de Salomé (version originale de 1907)1993
- Salammbô1993
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5
- Total plays
- 72
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,989x
- The MIQE Guidelines: Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments
· 2009 · cited 14,233x
- Salmon provides fast and bias-aware quantification of transcript expression
· 2017 · cited 12,525x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,999x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,255x
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Quotes
- “Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.”
- “All law is "situational law." The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.”
- “All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development—in which they were transferred from theology to the theory of the state, whereby, for example, the omnipotent God became the omnipotent lawgiver—but also because of their systematic structure, the recognition of which is necessary for a sociological consideration of these concepts. The exception in jurisprudence is analogous to the miracle in theology.”
- “The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate as a form of its political organization.”
- “Liberalism, with its contradictions and compromises, existed for Donoso Cortés only in that short interim period in which it was possible to answer the question “Christ or Barabbas?” with a proposal to adjourn or appoint a commission of investigation.”
- “The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can be transformed into a parliamentary debate and permit the decision to be suspended forever in an everlasting discussion.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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Encyclopedic overview
Carl Schmitt (11 July 1888 – 7 April 1985) was a German jurist and political theorist. An authoritarian conservative theorist, he was noted as a critic of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, and cosmopolitanism.
In 1933, Schmitt joined the Nazi Party and used his legal and political theories to provide ideological justification for the regime. He held various positions on Nazi councils, including the Prussian State Council and the Academy for German Law, and served as president of the National Socialist Association of Legal Professionals. By 1936, he had lost favour among senior Nazi officials and was removed from most of his official positions within the party. Schmitt and his work remain controversial for their association with Nazism.
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