Contemporary Relevance of Carl Schmitt

Matilda Arvidsson and Leilla Brannstrom are based at Lund University, Sweden; Panu Minkkinen is at the University of Helsinki, Finland

• Editors’ Introduction, Matilda Arvidsson, Leila Brännström and Panu Minkkinen; I. Law; 1. Carl Schmitt’s Definition of Sovereignty as Authorized Leadership, Leila Brännström; 2. Carl Schmitt and the Problem of Constitutional Guardianship, Lars Vinx; 3. Political Community in Carl Schmitt’s International Legal Thinking, Markus Gunneflo; 4. Carl Schmitt and the Tyranny of Values, Juha-Pekka Rentto; 5. A Law without the Political: Carl Schmitt, Romanticism, and Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Execution of Justice, Panu Minkkinen; 6. Social Acceleration, Motorized Legislation, and Framework Laws, Carl-Göran Heidegren; II. Politics; 7. Law, Decision, Necessity: Shifting the Burden of Responsibility, Johanna Jacques; 8. Representation and the Unrepresentable: Ernst Jünger, Carl Schmitt, and the Limits of Politics, Mårten Björk; 9. Rethinking the Concept of the Political: Derrida’s reading of Schmitt’s ‘The Theory of the Partisan’, Jacques De Ville; 10. Eschatology and Existentialism: Carl Schmitt’s Historical Understanding of International Law and Politics, Walter Rech; 11. Carl Schmitt and the New World Order: A View from Europe, Massimo Fichera; III. Theology; 12. ‘Im Kampf um Rom’: Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Rudolph Sohm and the Post-Secular Turn, Hjalmar Falk; 13. Processes of Order and the Concreteness of the Sacred: On the Contemporary Relevance of Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Nihilism, Jon Wittrock; 14. Beyond the Jurist as a Theologian of Legal Science: The Question of Carl Schmitt and the International Legal Order, Peter Langford and Ian Bryan; 15. From Teleology to Eschatology: The Katechon and the Political Theology of the International Law of Belligerent Occupation, Matilda Arvidsson