Carl Schmitt and the Buribunks: Technology, Law, Literature

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This volume includes the first full translation into English of The Buribunks and a selection of critical essays on the text, its meanings in the digital present, its playing with and criticism of the literary form and its place within Schmitt’s life and work. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of illustrations List of contributors Preface PART I: Introducing The Buribunks 1. The Buribunks as law, technology and literature 2. The Buribunks: An essay on the philosophy of history 3. Behind the words of Die Buribunken: Translators’ comments PART II: The Buribunks as typeset 4. The Buribunks, post-truth and a tentative cartography of informational existence 5. The theological-bureaucratic science fiction of Philip K. Dick and Carl Schmitt: An economic theology of omniscience in The Buribunks 6. Inauthentic temporality and the age of hyperburibunkism 7. Megarianism, emancipation and the (im)potentiality of political ontology: A commentary on freedom in Schmitt’s dystopia 8. The challenges of anti-intellectual parody 9. ‘Quantity turns into quality’: Breathing life into dead scholasticism PART III: The Buribunks as writing 10. On writing. Under control.: The Buribunks and the autographic society of control 11. Modernist life-writing and early cinema in Carl Schmitt’s The Buribunks 12. Die Buribunken – a pastiche: A mechanised modernity failing Hegel and Kierkegaard 13. Sola scriptura: Doubling of life and critique of modernity in The Buribunks 14. Schmitt’s Roman links in The Buribunks: Enriching the satire PART IV: The Buribunks as part of Schmitt’s wider oeuvre 15. Mephistophelean irony in Carl Schmitt’s Political Romanticism, The Buribunks and Ex Captivitate Salus 16. Imagined facts, actual enemies: The Buribunks and the political 17. Between The Buribunks and the Christian Epimetheus 18. Schmitt’s life within the academy since 2001 Index