I know little more about Schmitt (note spelling), but he proceeded to
NSDAP membership & justifying state killing as a form of justice via
authoritarian (tendency totalitarian) Catholicism. Nietzsche wouldn't
have touched Catholicism with a barge-pole, of course, or the sort of
ressentiment-laden petty bourgeois run-with-the pack victimization the
Nazis went in for. Out of interest I just googled him - strange that
most of the links are French...
MJ
Dominic Fox wrote:
>It's a pretty dog-eat-dog view of history...
>
>But this is why I keep wheeling out people like Carl Schmidt (who
>admittedly I only know through Derrida's _The Politics of
>Friendship_). They are part of the intellectual context in which this
>sort of stance is considered unexceptionable. Hence also delving into
>Nietzsche here.
>
>I'm sure Lawrence is more than entitled to think that "context" a
>cesspool - it forms part of the intellectual heritage of Nazism, for
>instance, to the extent that Nazism was ever an intellectual movement
>or capable of being mistaken for one by intellectuals. But knowing how
>wars are justified, how policy is framed, how "reality" appears to the
>realists and super-realists, is better in my view than holding one's
>nose and preferring not to know.
>
>Not that I only want to know in order better to oppose. I want to know
>in order to be better able to think - to entertain contradiction.
>
>Dominic
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M.J.Walker - no webpage, no blogspot, no idea -
nobody dies, 'nothing happens', we call it music,
it is time rushing past the shabby portals of our ear
and I am just a terrible mistake.
Robert Kelly
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