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The Weimar century

From Politica Comun, a special issue on Carl Schmitt. Lars Vinx (Bilkent): Carl Schmitt and the Problem of Constitutional Guardianship. Miguel Vatter (UNSW): The Political Theology of Carl Schmitt. Antonio Cerella (Central Lancashire): Until the End of the World: Girard, Schmitt and the Origins of Violence. Daniel Capecchi (UERJ): Politics, Constitution and Nomos: The Constitutional Theories of Schmitt and Arendt. Lana Michelle Allen (Vanderbilt): An Arendtian Reading of Prison Resistance. Carlos Alfonso Garduno Comparan (CONACyT): Arendt and Ricoeur on Ideology and Authority. Sophia Mihic reviews Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences by Peter Baehr. The disfigured self: Paula Marantz Cohen on what Hannah Arendt got right. Rodrigo Chacon (Harvard): On a Forgotten Kind of Grounding: Strauss, Jacobi, and the Phenomenological Critique of Modern Rationalism. Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft reviews Leo Strauss: Man of Peace by Robert Howse (and more). Alan Gilbert on what Leo Strauss set in motion. Francis Fukuyama reviews Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing by Arthur M. Melzer. The Voegelin Enigma: Montgomery C. Erfourth on how Eric Voegelin smashed every category, scrambled every dichotomy, and spurned every orthodoxy he encountered to discover what ailed modern Western society. The introduction to The Weimar Century: German Emigres and the Ideological Foundations of the Cold War by Udi Greenberg.