The Rise and Fall of Carl Schmitt

Itu0027s hard to account for a biography that, its author acknowledges, is such tortuous dimension and which follows Schmittu0027s works and their revisions closely, sometimes almost month by month, across much of the 96 years of his life. At over 550 pages of text, the biography comes close to a chronicle, which observes and records the sequence of events that made up Schmittu0027s problematic life, as well as his conscious attempts at finding normative orientation and stability.