The legal and political theorist Carl Schmitt is now probably best known for such aphorisms as the one he placed at the opening of Political Theology: “Sovereign is he who decides about the state of exception.” After Schmitt joined the National Socialist Party in 1933, he contributed quite actively to the radicalization of Nazi positions: in “Der Führer schützt das Recht” (The Führer Protects the Law), he justified the Adolf Hitler-orderedmurder of SA members in the so-called Röhm-Putsch; in “Die deutsche Rechtswissenschaft im Kampf gegen den jüdischen Geist,” he advocated excluding Jews from scholarly citations; and in “Die Verfassung der Freiheit,” he praised the legal ban on interracial (“Aryan”-Jewish) marriages enacted by the Nuremberg Laws. But in 1936, he found himself attacked in the SS newspaper Das Schwarze Korps. He was then put under surveillance of the SD (Sicherheitsdienst, the intelligence agency of the SS) and was forced

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“与其为他们而死，不如为他们而死”：卡尔·施密特 (Carl Schmitt) 读《贝尼托·塞雷诺》(Benito Cereno)

法律和政治理论家卡尔·施密特现在最出名的可能是他在《政治神学》一书开头所说的格言：“主权是决定例外状态的人。” 施密特于 1933 年加入国家社会党后，为纳粹立场的激进化做出了相当积极的贡献：在“Der Führer schützt das Recht”（元首保护法律）中，他为阿道夫·希特勒下令谋杀南非成员的行为辩护。 - 称为罗姆政变；在“Die deutsche Rechtswissenschaft im Kampf gegen den jüdischen Geist”中，他主张将犹太人排除在学术引用之外；并且在“自由法”中，他赞扬了纽伦堡法律颁布的禁止异族（“雅利安人”-犹太人）婚姻的法律禁令。但在 1936 年，他发现自己在党卫军报纸 Das Schwarze Korps 上遭到袭击。