Legal indeterminacy and the origins of Nazi legal thought: the case of Carl Schmitt

History of Political Thought 17 (4):571-590 (1996)
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Here, I have tried to show that a second look at the young Schmitt's legal thinking does bring clarity to the 'confused'� and 'polemical' debate about his theoretical and political legacy. Pace Schmitt, it helps demonstrate that Schmitt's embrace of German fascism was anticipated by key elements of his thinking about the dilemma of legal indeterminacy -- well before Hitler's rise to power

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Carl Schmitt on Friendship: Polemics and Diagnostics.Gabriella Slomp - 2007 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 10 (2):199-213.

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