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(Ibid., 450). On this whole question, see Bendersky, Carl Schmitt, 185ff., especially the
account of Schmitt's reply to Kass on p. 187. Excerpts from Schmitt's diaries published
by Eberhard Straub indicate how depressed Schmitt was by the prospect of Hitler's
appointment: "The Old Man [Hindenburg] has gone crazy" (January 27, 1933);
"Cancelled my lecture. Couldn't work. Ridiculous state of affairs. Read the newspaper.
Excited myself into a temper—so the day went" (January 31, 1933). See "Der Jurist im
Zweilicht des Politischen: Carl Schmitt und der Staat," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
July 18, 1981.
92. Quotations in this sentence are from Schmitt, Parlamentarismus. See this volume,
20, 50.
93. Jürgen Habermas, Strukturwandel del Öffentlichkeit. Untersuchungen zu einer
Kategorie der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft (Darmstadt & Neuwied: Luchterhand, 1962),
17. Habermas's very complicated intellectual relationship to Carl Schmitt cannot be
treated in a footnote; but see for example Habermas's introduction to Observations on
"The Spiritual Situation of the Age" (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1984), esp. 12ff.
94. Habermas, "Das. umfunktionierte Prinzip der Publizität," in Strukturwandel, esp.
343ff.; and Kirchheimer, "Majoritäten und Minoritäten in westeuropäischen
Regierungen," Die Neue Gesellschaft 6 (1959), 256–270. For Kirchheimer's equally
ambivalent relationship to Schmitt, see the collection Von der Weimarer Republik zum
Faschismus: Die Auflösung der demokratische Rechtsordung (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp,
1976).
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95. Carl Schmitt, "Diskussion über Presse und öffentliche Meinung," in Verhandlungen
der 7. Deutschen Soziologentages (Tübingen: Mohr, 1931), 56–59. These are the
proceedings of the conference of sociologists held in Berlin from September 28 to
October 1, 1930. Schmitt's argument takes up Tönnies, Kritik der öffentliche Meinung
(Berlin: Springer, 1922), esp. the discussion in chap. 3. Cf. Tönnies's long and critical
review of Schmitt's Parlamentarismus, "Demokratie und Parlamentarismus,"
Schmoller's Jahrbuch 51 (1927), 1–44. Schmitt's remarks here should be read along with
his argument in Legalität und Legitimität against an "equal chance" for anticonstitutional
parties. There and here he mentions the Communist party (KPD) and the Nazis
(NSDAP) and it is clear that they were his target. Neutrality in the face of these, he
answered Carl Brinkmann in 1930, was just "a way of getting out of the struggle." Cf.
Brinkmann, "Presse und öffentliche Meinung,'' Verhandlungen der 7. Deutschen
Soziologentages, 9–31.
96. This volume, 50.
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