Kam Shapiro is an assistant professor of politics and government at Illinois State University. He is the author of Sovereign Nations, Carnal States (2003).

Kam Shapiro makes the case not only that one can find a potentially fascist aesthetic in the work of Carl Schmitt, but also the material for a critical response to it, much as one might find a remedy in the illness itself. This is dangerous territoryand Shapiro guides us skillfully through it, never loosing his political and moral feet, while never yielding to a desire to score easy points. A final chapter places Schmitt in the company of the present conduct of American foreign policy — it is disturbing because it is an accurate picture.

• Chapter 1 Schmitt at LargeChapter 2 Channels of Political AuthorityChapter 3 From Ethos to PathosChapter 4 Globalization and NihilismChapter 5 Carl Schmitt and the Intensification of Politics

Kam Shapiro is an assistant professor of politics and government at Illinois State University. He is the author of Sovereign Nations, Carnal States (2003).

Kam Shapiro makes the case not only that one can find a potentially fascist aesthetic in the work of Carl Schmitt, but also the material for a critical response to it, much as one might find a remedy in the illness itself. This is dangerous territoryand Shapiro guides us skillfully through it, never loosing his political and moral feet, while never yielding to a desire to score easy points. A final chapter places Schmitt in the company of the present conduct of American foreign policy — it is disturbing because it is an accurate picture.

• Chapter 1 Schmitt at LargeChapter 2 Channels of Political AuthorityChapter 3 From Ethos to PathosChapter 4 Globalization and NihilismChapter 5 Carl Schmitt and the Intensification of Politics

Kam Shapiro is an assistant professor of politics and government at Illinois State University. He is the author of Sovereign Nations, Carnal States (2003).

Kam Shapiro makes the case not only that one can find a potentially fascist aesthetic in the work of Carl Schmitt, but also the material for a critical response to it, much as one might find a remedy in the illness itself. This is dangerous territoryand Shapiro guides us skillfully through it, never loosing his political and moral feet, while never yielding to a desire to score easy points. A final chapter places Schmitt in the company of the present conduct of American foreign policy — it is disturbing because it is an accurate picture.

• Chapter 1 Schmitt at LargeChapter 2 Channels of Political AuthorityChapter 3 From Ethos to PathosChapter 4 Globalization and NihilismChapter 5 Carl Schmitt and the Intensification of Politics