Political Romanticism (Carl Schmitt)

As Carl Schmitt comes back into fashion, I am reading all his works. This is his very first, from 1919, an excoriation of those who prioritize ethics over politics, and who refuse to make decisions when decisions are necessary.

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"To my excitement, Carl Schmitt is coming back into fashion, or at least into notice. Last week, for example, an excellent piece by the Swedish renegade leftist Malcolm Kyeyune received wide attention. It revolved around Schmitt’s concept, from 'The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy,' that when a regime must prove its legitimacy empirically, it is doomed. Kyeyune concluded that, just as the 'bourgeois kings' of Schmitt’s analysis were doomed because they had lost intrinsic legitimacy, so has, and is, our own regime. Now I wish I had thought of and made that point in my own recent review of that book. Ah well. Instead, today you will have to be satisfied with my reflections on another book, Schmitt’s first, Political Romanticism." . . .