Carl Schmitt

German jurist and political philosopher (1888–1985)

Carl Schmitt (11 July 1888 – 7 April 1985) was a German jurist and political philosopher. An authoritarian conservative, he was noted as a critic of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, and cosmopolitanism. In 1933, Schmitt joined the Nazi Party and used his legal and political theories to provide ideological justification for the regime.

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