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Podcast: New Discourses
Episode: The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 8: Carl Schmitt's Politics and the Nazi State
Description: The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 182
What was the underlying structure of politics in the Third Reich, and what bearing did this view of politics have on the unfolding Nazi Experiment? In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay continues this sprawling series on Nazism, showing not just that it was a disaster but also why it was a disaster. In this episode, he presents the politics of Carl Schmitt, which informed and meshed with the Nazi totalitarian program at its deepest levels. Lindsay presents some of Schmitt's famous The Concept of the Political (1932) to...