Carl Schmitt

The Lady Vanishes – Justice and Law in Our Age: Dilip Simeon

Guest post by DILIP SIMEON [Names and publications of cited authors are listed at the end of the essay.] The sophists taught, rather publicly, the view that the summit of happiness is to combine the appearance of justice with actual injustice: Gregory McBrayer (2015), p 44 To speak of justice has always been to plunge … Continue reading The Lady Vanishes – Justice and Law in Our Age: Dilip Simeon →

Of Friendship and Politics

Although it is somewhat banal to say, it should never be forgotten how the First World War traumatized the political and cultural life of Europe, especially in the German speaking world. Heidegger’s, Jasper’s, Freud’s, Junger’s, Hesse’s (not to mention Hitler’s) inter-war works are unthinkable without this bloody caesura in European history. In a profound sense, the inter-war period in Germany (but not only) could be viewed as a psychic expression of what we would call today: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.