E.H. Butler Library at Buffalo State College Digital Commons at Buffalo State History Theses History and Social Studies Education 12-2015 The Anglo-American Reception of Carl Schmitt from the 1930s to the Early 2000s Benjamin T. Watkins Buffalo State College,
[email protected] Advisor John Abromeit, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History First Reader John Abromeit, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History Second Reader Patrick McGovern, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science Department Chair Andrew D. Nicholls, Ph.D. Professor of History To learn more about the History and Social Studies Education Department and its educational programs, research, and resources, go to http://history.buffalostate.edu/. Recommended Citation Watkins, Benjamin T., "The Anglo-American Reception of Carl Schmitt from the 1930s to the Early 2000s" (2015). History Theses. Paper 35. Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/history_theses Part of the European History Commons, Intellectual History Commons, and the Political History Commons Abstract This thesis examines the Anglo-American reception, from the 1930s to the early 2000s, of the ideas of the German political theorist Carl Schmitt. The introduction provides an overview the key concepts in Schmitt’s writings in the 1920s. Chapter one examines Schmitt’s influence on the German-Jewish émigré political theorists Leo Strauss and Hans Morgenthau, in an attempt to explain how Schmitt’s ideas were initially transported from Germany to the U.S. The second chapter is a more detailed case study of the American leftist journal, Telos, which played a key role in introducing Schmitt’s writings to a broader, English language audience in the late 1980s and 1990s.