Schmitt, Carl (1888 – 1985)

Carl Schmitt / 1890-1918 / 1919-1933 / 1933-1945 / 1945-1949 / 1949-1978

schmitt oldWoe to him who has no friend, for his enemy will sit in judgment over him. Woe to him who has no enemy, for I shall be his enemy on Judgment Day.

Weh dem, der keinen Freund hat, denn sein Feind wird über ihn zu Gericht sitzen. Weh dem, der keinen Feind hat, denn ich werde sein Feind sein am jüngsten Tage.

Carl Scmitt: Works and writings:

My work on Schmitt

Writings

  • Koivusalo, Markku: ’Tekniikka ja taide: tekhne’n kummat kohtalot’, Nuori Voima 2000: 4-5, pages 28-33.  (Technology and Art: The Uncanny Destinies of Tekhne.)
  • Koivusalo, Markku & Ojakangas Mika: ”Carl Schmitt poliittisena ajattelijana.” (Carl Schmitt as a political thinker.) Second preface in the Finnish translation of Carl Schmitt’s Politische Theologie. Vier Kapitel zur Lehre von der Souveränität (1922). Poliittinen teologia : neljä lukua suvereenisuusopista. Helsinki, Tutkijaliitto/Paradeigma 1997, pp. 25-40.

Conferences and presentations

  • The Truth of the Political: Discussion, Will or Enemy? Global Order in Conservative Political Thought since WWII CEEISA-ISA 2016 Joint Conference, Ljubljana, June 24, 2016.
  • “The Enemy Figures in Europe.” Discussion in the Helsinki Book Fair October 24 2015.
  • Ystävä vai vihollinen? Carl Schmitt, politiikan käsite ja aikamme ajattelu. (Friend or Foe? Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the political and the Thought of our Time) 
  • “No more enemies”. Presentation in Carl Schmitt – filosofi, rätt, kontrovers – symposium 12-28.9.1997 Turku.
  • Carl Schmittin poliittinen teologia. Presentation in the Critical Cafe. Autumn 1998. Helsinki.

Lectures