1st Edition
Geo-Political Spaces Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Carl Schmitt
Part I: Conversations on Territory and Space
Chapter 1
Ratzel’s ghost: On the biopolitical roots of Lebensraum and Großraum
Claudio Minca and Matteo Proto
Chapter 2
The Moral Economy of Space. Carl Schmitt, Raumtheorie, and the Apologetics of Aggression
David Thomas Murphy
Chapter 3
Carl Schmitt, Political Theology and the History of Political Thought
Samuel Garrett Zeitlin
Chapter 4
When it comes to the point, he says Großraum. Conversations and Encounters between Carl Schmitt and Heinrich Schmitthenner
Ulrike Jureit
Chapter 5
The Political at the Trial of History: Carl Schmitt and Otto Brunner on the Conundrum of the Modern State
Isabella Consolati
Chapter 6
Eschatological geopolitics: Taubes contra Schmitt
Benedikt Korf
Part II: Transnational Models of Political Spaces
Chapter 7
Leadership and hegemony: Schmitt’s Landpowers-Seapowers dialectics
Patricia Chiantera-Stutte
Chapter 8
Monrovian Musings: Carl Schmitt’s Critique of American Empire and the Monroe Doctrine
Marco Mariano
Chapter 9
Rethinking Empires at the Sunset of the Eurocentric Paradigm: Karl Haushofer and Carl Schmitt’s Great Space Theory from a Global Perspective
Nicola Bassoni
Chapter 10
Carl Schmitt and the air war: looking for a katéchon
Filippo Ruschi
Chapter 11
Before astropolitics: Ratzel, Schmitt, and the question of cosmic colonisation
Ian Klinke
Biography
Patricia Chiantera-Stutte teaches History of Political Thought in Bari. Her research deals with intellectual history, civilisationism, geopolitics populism and radical right,. Among her publications: with G. Borgognone Civilization. History of a Political Idea (2023), with U. Jureit, Denken im Raum (2021).
Ulrike Jureit, Historian, Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture. Main areas of research: Social and cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries, generational theory, history of violence, cultural concepts of memory. Amongst her publications: with P. Chiantera-Stutte (Hg.): Geographica Helvetica. 78(2023): Resonanz und Rezeption. Werk und Wirkung Friedrich Ratzels im internationalen Vergleich (2023), “Blonde Provinzen”. National socialist territorial and homogenization policies and the murderous consequences of their failure. In: Journal of urban history. 50 (2024)
