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Marxist socialists, and anarchic-syndicalist revolutionaries unite” on this point, with the re-
sult that “The modern state seems to have actually become what Max Weber envisioned: a huge
industrial plant.”
- Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, trans. George
Schwab (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), 1. - Schmitt, Glossarium: Aufzeichnungen der Jahre 1947–1951, ed. Eberhard Freiherr von
Medern (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1991), 243. Cited in the combined translations of Gross,
Carl Schmitt and the Jews, 85–86, and Tracy B. Strong, “Carl Schmitt and Thomas Hobbes:
Myth and Politics,” in Carl Schmitt, The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes:
Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol, trans. George D. Schwab and Erna Hilfstein (Chi-
cago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), xxiv. Weber had also mentioned the Grand Inquisitor
as a cogent analysis of the problems attending an ethics of conviction; see Weber, “Profession
and Vocation of Politics,” 14. - Strong, “Carl Schmitt and Thomas Hobbes,” xxv.
- Schmitt, Leviathan, 5 7.
- Paul Müller [pseud. of Waldemar Gurian], “Entscheidung und Ordnung: Zu den
Schriften von Carl Schmitt,” Schweizerische Rundschau: Monatsschrift für Geistesleben und
Kultur 34 (1939): 566–576. Cited in Gross, Carl Schmitt and the Jews, 92–93. - Schmitt, Political Theology, 55.
- Ibid., 50, 66.
- Schmitt, Concept of the Political, 29.
- Sorel is relevant here. See Carl Schmitt, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy, trans.
Ellen Kennedy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988), 65–76. - Strauss, “Notes on Concept of the Political,” 113.
- KG 140.
- Such rhetoric has also been adopted in some recent discourse; Siegbert Wolf entitles two
volumes of his edition of Landauer’s writings Antipolitik. - KG 14. For the Ponte Tresa lectures, see Buber, “Arbeitsgemeinschaft zu ausgewählten
Abschnitten aus dem Buche Samuel,” in SM 46–91. - Buber, “The How and Why of Our Bible Translation,” in ST 217.
- Buber, “Religion and God’s Rule,” 111.
- Buber, “Politics Born of Faith,” in A Believing Humanism, 178.
- Buber, “Biblical Leadership,” in Israel and the World: Essays in a Time of Crisis, trans. G.
Hort (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997), 122. - Ibid., 133.
- See chapter 7 for more on Buber’s effort to convince the 1921 Twelfth Zionist Congress to
adopt an anti-imperialist resolution committing Zionism to cooperation with the Palestinian
Arabs. - Buber, “Three Theses,” 112.
- Buber, “Gandhi, Politics, and Us,” in PW 131 (emphasis Buber’s).
- Ibid., 127.
- Ibid., 130.
- Ibid., 129.
- Buber, “Gandhi, Politik, und Wir,” Die Kreatur 3 (1930): 333.
- Buber, “Gandhi, Politics, and Us,” 131.
- Ibid., 134.