Zeitlin, SG;
(2020)
Indirection and the Rhetoric of Tyranny: Carl Schmitt's the Tyranny of Values 1960-1967.
Modern Intellectual History
, 18
(2)
pp. 427-450.
10.1017/S1479244319000398.
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Abstract
This article situates Carl Schmitt's The Tyranny of Values (1960/1967/1979) within the context of Schmitt's 1940s and 1950s op-ed campaign for full amnesty for Nazi war criminals as well as the context of the Veit Harlan trials and the 1958 Lüth judgment of the German Constitutional Court. The article further examines the revisions to Schmitt's 1967 version of the text in the light of Karl Löwith's criticisms of Schmitt in an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from 1964. The article argues that The Tyranny of Values is a work of post-Second World War Nazi apologetics, in which Nazi racial theory can be seen being put to polemical ends in the 1960s and 1970s. The article concludes with broader reflections on the relation of Schmitt's The Tyranny of Values to Nazi discourse in the aftermath of the Second World War and the history of Nazism post-1945.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Indirection and the Rhetoric of Tyranny: Carl Schmitt's the Tyranny of Values 1960-1967 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S1479244319000398 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479244319000398 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10179431 |
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