1st Edition
Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt The Politics of Order and Myth
1. Johan Tralau (Uppsala) Introduction
Part I: Schmitt and Hobbes: Why should we care?
2. John Dunn (Cambridge) The Significance of Hobbes’s Conception of Power
3. Stephen Holmes (NYU) Does Hobbes have a Concept of the Enemy?
4. Patricia Springborg (Bolzano) Hobbes, Schmitt, Bobbitt, and Total War
5. Karsten Fischer (Berlin) Weird Relations. Hobbes, Schmitt and the Paradox of Religious Liberalism
Part II: Two Leviathans
6. Ellen Kennedy (U Pennsylvania) Two Leviathans: 1651 & 1938
7. Yves Charles Zarka (Paris Sorbonne) Carl Schmitt or the Triple Betrayal of Hobbes
8. Roberto Farneti (Bologna) Hobbes’s Paradox Redux
9. Gabriella Slomp (St. Andrews) Hobbes, Schmitt and the Category of the Political
Part III: Myth, Religion, and the Politics of Concealment
10. Ruth Groh (Heidelberg) Carl Schmitt, the Secret Gnostic
11. Tomaž Mastnak (Ljubljana) Schmitt’s Behemoth
12. Jan-Werner Müller (Princeton) Re-Imagining Leviathan: Schmitt and Oakeshott on the Nature of Political Association
13. Johan Tralau (Uppsala) Order, the Ocean, and Satan: Schmitt’s Hobbes and the Enigmatic Ambiguity of Friend and Foe
Biography
Johan Tralau teaches politics at Uppsala universitet. He has been a visiting scholar in Tokyo, Berlin, at the New School of Social Research, in Rome, and in Hanover. In 2007–2008, he hosted his own TV show, Kanon-TV, on the Swedish channel Axess TV. He has published extensively in English, German and Swedish, including his books, Människoskymning. Främlingskap, frihet, och Hegels problem hos Karl Marx och Ernst Jünger (2002, German trans. 2005), and Draksådd. Den grekiska tragedin som politiskt tänkande (2010); his work has been (or will shortly be) published in journals such as Political Theory; Philosophisches Jahrbuch; Greek, Roman and Byzantine studies; Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft; European Journal of Political Theory, and History of Political Thought.
