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It has been emphasized frequently that Bertolt Brecht's political theater, Die Maßnahme in particular, has been influenced by Carl Schmitt's theory of the sovereign and the state of exception. Although it is indeed remarkable that his learning play seems to record some of the concepts that, in Schmitt, belong to the categories of political theory, this article will return to the role and discourse of the theater in Brecht. The drama of revolution is a political text through and through, but it cannot separate the political from the theater; the drama of revolution is in search of a form, a metatheater, in which the overcoming of an order is first and foremost the attempt to suspend the law of genre. Strikingly, Brecht's learning play brings to the stage all the characteristics that have, since Aristotle, marked tragedy: the pity, the error of a hero, the hero's comprehension of the error, the guilt of an innocent man, the hero's death, the sacrifice, and catharsis. Brecht reproduces the law of the genre he wishes to supersede and entangles his figures in inescapable aporias that have dominated the metadiscourse on drama in revolutionary theater from Büchner's Danton's Tod to Heiner Müller's Mauser.

The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt collects thirty original chapters on the diverse oeuvre of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Uniquely located at the intersection of law, the social sciences, and the humanities, it brings together sophisticated yet accessible interpretations of Schmitt's sprawling thought and complicated biography.

Providing a detailed introduction to the thought of Carl Schmitt that incorporates insights from law, the social sciences, and the humanities, this Oxford handbook is also an intervention in its own right, seeking to decenter the study of this most hyped thinker of the twentieth century by advancing two interconnected arguments: that the motif of order is a powerful yet insufficiently utilised heuristic device for making sense of Schmitt's thought, and that a trinity of thought is discernable in Schmitt's writings comprising his political, legal, and cultural thought. We establish intellectual connections across these three bodies of thought and trace the mutually constitutive relationships that exist among them. Schmitt's thought, we find, amounted to a network of ideas about the sources of social order, the cement of society.

Kafkas Texte sind Institutionengeschichten. Sie handeln von Ämtern, Prozessen und ihren Akten, von Volkskunde, Kaisertum und Legenden. Und sie handeln von Figuren, die von solchen Einrichtungen magisch angezogen werden und kaum in der Lage sind, ihr Dasein aus sich selbst heraus zu sichern. Kafkas Institutionen sind so einschließend wie ausschließend: Immer markieren sie eine Schwelle, sei es jene zwischen Autonomie und Zwang, jene zwischen Literatur und Leben oder schließlich die ihrer eigenen Unterscheidung, die Schwelle von Institution und Individuum. Kafkas Literatur ist eine Literatur der Institutionen, insofern sie diese Schwellenkunde betreibt. Die hier versammelten Beiträge lesen Kafkas Texte als Poetik der Institutionen, sie fragen nach den ordnungsstiftenden Funktionen für sein Schreiben, sie folgen den Wegen seiner Figuren, den Gängen, Vorzimmern, Lifts etc., und sie gehen seinen literarischen Verfahren auf den Grund: den Rhetoriken, Darstellungsweisen und Abläufen seiner Institutionengeschichten.

A Chronology of Carl Schmitt's Life -- A List of Carl Schmitt's Writings -- "A Fanatic of Order in an Epoch of Confusing Turmoil" : The Political, Legal, and Cultural Thought of Carl Schmitt / Jens Meierhenrich and Oliver Simons -- A "Catholic Layman of German Nationality and Citizenship"? : Carl Schmitt and the Religiosity of Life / Reinhard Mehring -- The "True Enemy" : Antisemitism in Carl Schmitt's Life and Thought / Raphael Gross -- Schmitt's Diaries / Joseph W. Bendersky -- Carl Schmitt in Plettenberg / Christian Linder -- Fearing the Disorder of Things : The Development of Carl Schmitt's Institutional Theory, 1919-1942 / Jens Meierhenrich -- Carl Schmitt's Political Theory of Dictatorship / Duncan Kelly -- The Political Theology of Carl Schmitt / Miguel Vatter -- Teaching in Vain : Carl Schmitt, Thomas Hobbes, and the Theory of the Sovereign State / John P. McCormick -- Concepts of the Political in Twentieth-Century European Thought / Samuel Moyn -- Carl Schmitt's Defense of Democracy / William Rasch -- Same/Other versus Friend/Enemy : Levinas contra Schmitt / Aryeh Botwinick -- Carl Schmitt's Concepts of War : A Categorical Failure / Benno Teschke -- Carl Schmitt's Concept of History / Matthias Lievens -- What's "Left" in Schmitt? From Aversion to Appropriation in Contemporary Political Theory / Matthew G. Specter -- A Jurist Confronting Himself : Carl Schmitt's Jurisprudential Thought / Giorgio Agamben -- Carl Schmitt and the Weimar Constitution / Ulrich K. Preuss -- The Concept of the Rule-of-Law State in Carl Schmitt's Verfassungslehre / David Dyzenhaus -- Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt : Growing Discord, Culminating in the "Guardian" Controversy of 1931 / Stanley L. Paulson -- States of Emergency / William E. Scheuerman -- Politonomy / Martin Loughlin -- Carl Schmitt and International Law / Martti Koskenniemi -- Demystifying Schmitt / Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule -- Carl Schmitt and Modernity / Friedrich Balke -- Is "the Political" a Romantic Concept? : Novalis's Faith and Love or The King and Queen with Reference to Carl Schmitt / Rüdiger Campe -- Walter Benjamin's Esteem for Carl Schmitt / Horst Bredekamp -- Legitimacy of the Modern Age? : Hans Blumenberg and Carl Schmitt / Alexander Schmitz -- Tragedy as Exception in Carl Schmitt's Hamlet or Hecuba / David Pan --At the Limits of Rhetoric : Authority, Commonplace, and the Role of Literature in Carl Schmitt / Johannes Türk -- Carl Schmitt's Spatial Rhetoric / Oliver Simons