Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important and influential political theorists of the twentieth century. His many works published in English include The Concept of the Political, Political Theology, Writings on War and On Dictatorship.Edited, with an introduction, by Andreas Kalyvas and Federico Finchelstein

"These short dialogs, written in the 1950s when Carl Schmitt was no longer center stage, are primers on two essential themes of his thought: the inescapable reality of power that cannot be normatively wished away; and the spatial shift from a terrestrial to a maritime view of the world, which unleashes the total mobilization of technology that shapes global modernity."William Rasch, Indiana University

• Table of ContentsEditors� IntroductionTranslator�s Note and AcknowledgmentsCarl Schmitt�s Prologue to the 1962 Spanish Edition (1961/1962)Dialogue on Power and Access to the Holder of PowerDialogue on New SpaceWorks ConsultedNotesIndex

Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important and influential political theorists of the twentieth century. His many works published in English include The Concept of the Political, Political Theology, Writings on War and On Dictatorship.Edited, with an introduction, by Andreas Kalyvas and Federico Finchelstein

"These short dialogs, written in the 1950s when Carl Schmitt was no longer center stage, are primers on two essential themes of his thought: the inescapable reality of power that cannot be normatively wished away; and the spatial shift from a terrestrial to a maritime view of the world, which unleashes the total mobilization of technology that shapes global modernity."William Rasch, Indiana University

• Table of ContentsEditors� IntroductionTranslator�s Note and AcknowledgmentsCarl Schmitt�s Prologue to the 1962 Spanish Edition (1961/1962)Dialogue on Power and Access to the Holder of PowerDialogue on New SpaceWorks ConsultedNotesIndex

Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important and influential political theorists of the twentieth century. His many works published in English include The Concept of the Political, Political Theology, Writings on War and On Dictatorship.Edited, with an introduction, by Andreas Kalyvas and Federico Finchelstein

"These short dialogs, written in the 1950s when Carl Schmitt was no longer center stage, are primers on two essential themes of his thought: the inescapable reality of power that cannot be normatively wished away; and the spatial shift from a terrestrial to a maritime view of the world, which unleashes the total mobilization of technology that shapes global modernity."William Rasch, Indiana University

• Table of ContentsEditors� IntroductionTranslator�s Note and AcknowledgmentsCarl Schmitt�s Prologue to the 1962 Spanish Edition (1961/1962)Dialogue on Power and Access to the Holder of PowerDialogue on New SpaceWorks ConsultedNotesIndex