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 and On Dictatorship.

"Ex Captivitate Salus is Carl Schmitt�s poetic, apocalyptic, seductive but ultimately unsatisfying attempt at self-exculpation after the Fall of the Third Reich – which, in its early years, Schmitt served so faithfully."John McCormick, The University of Chicago

• Introduction: Carl Schmitt�s Prison WritingsAndreas Kalyvas and Federico FinchelsteinTranslator�s NoteConversation with Eduard Spranger (Summer 1945)Remarks in Response to a Radio Speech by Karl Mannheim (Winter 1945/46)Historiographia in Nuce: Alexis de Tocqueville (August 1946)Two Graves (Summer 1946)Ex Captivitate Salus (Summer 1946)Wisdom of the Cell (April 1947)Song of the Sixty-Year-OldAppendix: Foreword to the Spanish EditionNotesIndex

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 and On Dictatorship.

"Ex Captivitate Salus is Carl Schmitt�s poetic, apocalyptic, seductive but ultimately unsatisfying attempt at self-exculpation after the Fall of the Third Reich – which, in its early years, Schmitt served so faithfully."John McCormick, The University of Chicago

• Introduction: Carl Schmitt�s Prison WritingsAndreas Kalyvas and Federico FinchelsteinTranslator�s NoteConversation with Eduard Spranger (Summer 1945)Remarks in Response to a Radio Speech by Karl Mannheim (Winter 1945/46)Historiographia in Nuce: Alexis de Tocqueville (August 1946)Two Graves (Summer 1946)Ex Captivitate Salus (Summer 1946)Wisdom of the Cell (April 1947)Song of the Sixty-Year-OldAppendix: Foreword to the Spanish EditionNotesIndex

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 and On Dictatorship.

"Ex Captivitate Salus is Carl Schmitt�s poetic, apocalyptic, seductive but ultimately unsatisfying attempt at self-exculpation after the Fall of the Third Reich – which, in its early years, Schmitt served so faithfully."John McCormick, The University of Chicago

• Introduction: Carl Schmitt�s Prison WritingsAndreas Kalyvas and Federico FinchelsteinTranslator�s NoteConversation with Eduard Spranger (Summer 1945)Remarks in Response to a Radio Speech by Karl Mannheim (Winter 1945/46)Historiographia in Nuce: Alexis de Tocqueville (August 1946)Two Graves (Summer 1946)Ex Captivitate Salus (Summer 1946)Wisdom of the Cell (April 1947)Song of the Sixty-Year-OldAppendix: Foreword to the Spanish EditionNotesIndex