Weber, Schmitt & Arendt

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This advanced seminar in political theory will begin with Max Weber’s seminal early 20th century statements regarding the general limits of reason and science and the central place of violence and the irrational in politics; we will then address the fundamentally contrasting responses to these by Carl Schmitt and Hannah Arendt. Central themes will include existential questions of identity and community, freedom and sovereignty, and, authority and totalitarianism.