Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2025-05-20
Books mentioned on Part One: Carl Schmitt: The Mind Behind Modern Fascism
Robert walks Blake Wexler through the life and times of Carl Schmitt, a legal scholar born in Imperial Germany who would come to create the blueprint for how fascist movements could destroy liberal democracy from within. (2 Part Series) See omnystudio.
Robert Evans discussed The Enemy by Gopal Balakrishnan, The Life of Jesus Critically Examined by David Friedrich Strauss, and Carl Schmitt by Reinhard Mehring.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Enemy
Discussed“Another of Schmidt's biographers, Gopal Balakrishnan, describes this situation aly in his book, The Enemy. Most poor smalltown Catholics lived in a world closed off from a hostile, increasingly secular society, a world in which the local priest was a revered authority in matters of politics and morality.”
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The Life of Jesus Critically Examined
Discussed“As Lawrence Steppovich writes in an article for the journal of modern Judaism, the Young Hegelian school suddenly came into being in 1835 with a brilliant theological study, the life of Jesus Christ critically examined. It was written by a young and little-known theologian David Friedrich Strauss”
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Carl Schmitt
Discussed“I'm going to quote from Merring's book again here from October 12th. The diary contains a passionate love letters and an aesthetic philosophy of love that aims to base love on permanence and enforce faithfulness by idealizing love as devotion to an idea.”
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