A dangerous mind : Carl Schmitt in post-war European thought / Jan-Werner Müller.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-287) and index.

A German public lawyer in the twentieth century -- Masks and mirrors -- In search of stability I : Schmittianism in the German constitutional jurisprudence -- In search of stability II : industrial society, technocracy and the extinction of political will -- Visions of global order : Schmitt, Aron and the civil servant of the world spirit -- Schmitt and his historians : philosophies of history, the global civil war, and stranded objects -- Melancholy modernism : the Ritter School -- Don Carlos in Iberia : the 'new states' and the integrity of old Europe -- The partisan in the landscape of treason : Schmitt's theory of guerilla warfare, and its partisans -- Dangerous labyrinths : political theology and the legitimacy of the liberal age -- Dangerous liaisons : Schmitt, the new left and the limits of liberalism -- Terror, states of emergency and the liberal secessions -- The death (and strange rebirth) of Carl Schmitt -- Integral Europe and the rise of the European new right(s) -- Schmitt's globalization : drawing the lines.