God is dead, but his presence lives on in politics. This is the problem of political theology: the way that theological ideas find their way into secular politi

Political Theology II is Carl Schmitt's last book. Part polemic, part self-vindication for his involvement in the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDA

Almost 100 years have passed since Carl Schmitt gave his controversial definition of the sovereign as the one who decides on the exception in his by now classic

Annotation In a text innovative in both form and substance, Kahn forces an engagement with Schmitt's four chapters, offering a new version of each that is respo

Vulnerability is at the core of the political drama of our time. Countering conventional approaches, this book presents human vulnerability as a source of polit