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Background Reading: 

AESTHETICS AND THE CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL THEOLOGY

Dotti, Jorge. "From Karl to Carl: Schmitt as a Reader of Marx." In The Challenge of Carl Schmitt, edited by Chantal Mouffe, 92–117. London: Verso, 1999.

Hemming, Laurence Paul. "Heidegger’s Claim 'Carl Schmitt Thinks as a Liberal.'" Journal for Cultural Research 20, no. 3 (2016): 286–294.

Mastnak, Tomaž. "Hobbes in Kiel, 1938: From Ferdinand Tönnies to Carl Schmitt." History of European Ideas 41, no. 7 (2015): 966–991.

———. "Schmitt's Behemoth." Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 13, nos. 2–3 (2010): 275–296.

Mertel, Kurt C.M. "Two Ways of Being a Left-Heideggerian: The Crossroads between Political and Social Ontology." Philosophy and Social Criticism 43, no. 9 (2017): 966–984.

Mouffe, Chantal. "Carl Schmitt and the Paradox of Liberal Democracy." In The Challenge of Carl Schmitt, 38–53.

Pourciau, Sarah. "Bodily Negation: Carl Schmitt on the Meaning of Meaning." MLN 120, no. 5 (December 2005): 1066–1090.

Sabrovsky, Eduardo. "Carl Schmitt, enemigo de sí mismo." Revista de Filosofia 29, no. 47 (2017): 551–574.

Schmitt, Carl. Political Theology, translated by George Schwab. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Strauss, Leo. "Notes on Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political." In Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political, translated by George Schwab, 97–122. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Zarka, Yves Charles. "Le mythe contre la raison: Carl Schmitt ou la triple trahison de Hobbes." In Carl Schmitt ou le mythe du politique, edited by Yves Charles Zarka, 47–70. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2009.

Zizek, Slavoj. "Carl Schmitt in the Age of Post-Politics," In The Challenge of Carl Schmitt, 18–37.

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