Carl Schmitt and anti Semitism
Th e paper is concerned with one of the most problematic aspects of the political thought of Carl Schmitt. It shows that to evaluate Schmitt's anti Semitism, which became prominent in his work after 1933, one needs to take into consideration the German Catholic milieu at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. Th us defi ned, the anti Semitism cannot be seen as racially based. Th e paper also shows that the works created during the period of the Weimar Republic can be regarded as implicitly anti Semitic, especially in view of the theory of the partisan and the critique of normativism. It is from these viewpoints that Schmitt's controversial involvement in Nazi Germany can be interpreted.