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Few names, apart from that of Leo Strauss, are invoked more often when discussing the
American response to terrorism in recent years than that of Carl Schmitt. Schmitt, who
was part of the German school of political thought known as the 'Conservative
Revolution,' is widely regarded as having been one of the greatest legal minds of the
twentieth century. He famously asserted that the most important function of the
sovereign of a nation is not the drafting or enforcement of law, but rather his ability to
decide when the law should be suspended in an emergency, and likewise his power to
declare who the 'friend' and enemy of a community is at any given moment. Alain de
Benoist critiques those who claim Schmitt as an inspiration behind the American
'neoconservative' movement that held sway during the administration of President
George W. Bush, showing that the politics of the war on terror do not actually reflect
Schmitt's ideas, in that American...
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Few names, apart from that of Leo Strauss, are invoked more often when discussing the
American response to terrorism in recent years than that of Carl Schmitt. Schmitt, who
was part of the German school of political thought known as the 'Conservative
Revolution,' is widely regarded as having been one of the greatest legal minds of the
twentieth century. He famously asserted that the most important function of the
sovereign of a nation is not the drafting or enforcement of law, but rather his ability to
decide when the law should be suspended in an emergency, and likewise his power to
declare who the 'friend' and enemy of a community is at any given moment. Alain de
Benoist critiques those who claim Schmitt as an inspiration behind the American
'neoconservative' movement that held sway during the administration of President
George W. Bush, showing that the politics of the war on terror do not actually reflect
Schmitt's ideas, in that American lack of respect for the traditional rules of war, and its
determination to portray its enemies as embodiments of absolute evil rather than as
representatives of legitimate polities, renders contemporary American politics
thoroughly un-Schmittian. Benoist then goes on to analyse recent history from
Schmitt's standpoint, showing that the efforts of the United States have been intended
to preserve its global hegemony, whereas Schmitt believed that the world was
developing into a multipolar one where many powers, rather than a single power, would
dominate, a trend which is clearly at work in our time. Benoist demonstrates that Carl
Schmitt was therefore a much greater visionary than the American neoconservatives,
who failed to understand the geopolitical forces at work today.
Alain de Benoist is the leading philosopher behind the European 'New Right'
movement (a label which de Benoist himself rejects, perceiving himself to not fit into
the usual Left/Right dichotomy), a metapolitical school of thought which he helped to
found in France in 1968 with the establishment of GRECE (Research and Study Group
for European Civilisation). He continues to write and give lectures and interviews. He
lives in Paris. Arktos has previously made availabl
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