Carl Schmitt

Religion and the spontaneous order of the market: Law, freedom, and power over lives

“…In ‘The question of legality’, Schmitt criticizes the ‘legalistic’ drift of the modern bureaucratic and administrative state, which claims to regulate through laws even that which, despite being ‘legitimate’, cannot by definition be regulated. Interestingly, when drawing this distinction, Schmitt (2001: 62) makes explicit reference to Weber, thus, showing himself in many respects, as Jacob Taubes points out, to be ‘a legitimate…son of Max Weber’ (2013: 6).…”

The JewishVerfassung, the Israelinomos: the constitutional situation of the beginnings of the State of Israel in the context of Carl Schmitt's political and legal philosophy

“…Taubes explained a few years later: ‘[T]he minister of justice, Pinchas Rosen, needed Schmitt's Verfassungslehre so that he could deal with some difficult problems in the drafting of the constitution for the State of Israel. … I must admit to being more bemused than taken with the idea that the constitution of the State of Israel … would be drafted using Schmitt's Verfassungslehre as a guide.’ (Taubes, 2013, p. 47)Indeed, one must agree that the idea that Schmitt's work would inspire the Constitution of the Jewish state is surprising – for three reasons: two direct and one indirect.…”

“…‘[T]he minister of justice, Pinchas Rosen, needed Schmitt's Verfassungslehre so that he could deal with some difficult problems in the drafting of the constitution for the State of Israel. … I must admit to being more bemused than taken with the idea that the constitution of the State of Israel … would be drafted using Schmitt's Verfassungslehre as a guide.’ (Taubes, 2013, p. 47)…”

Leviatán: Derecho, identidad y "no-reconocimiento". Hobbes entre Schmitt y Taubes

“…La historia de la relación entre el jurista teórico del nacionalsocialismo Carl Schmitt y el rabino Jacob Taubes se conoce ahora gracias a la historia que este último hizo pública poco antes de su muerte (Taubes, 1996), pero también gracias a las referencias a la obra schmittiana contenidas en la transcripción del seminario Carta a los Romanos (Taubes, 1997), así como a la publicación de la correspondencia entre los dos (Taubes y Schmitt, 2018). Quizás el documento más interesante de esta explosiva relación sea la carta que Taubes escribió a Schmitt desde París el 18 de septiembre de 1978, tras una de sus visitas a Plettemberg (Taubes y Schmitt, 2012, pp.…”

“…Es en este marco que Taubes sitúa la parte final de la epístola dedicada a Thomas Hobbes, que demuestra la centralidad de la teoría hobbesiana en comparación-confrontación entre Taubes y Schmitt. Un capítulo, este, todavía poco conocido en comparación con el intercambio más famoso entre los dos sobre Walter Benjamin (Taubes, 1996, pp. 37 y ss; Taubes, 2012, pp.…”