Background
Schwab, George David was born on November 25, 1931. Son of Arkady and Klara (Jacobson) Schwab.
( The Challenge of the Exception is the key that unlocked...)
The Challenge of the Exception is the key that unlocked the ideas of Carl Schmitt, a leading political theorist and jurist who influenced the thoughts of, among others, Hannah Arendt, Carl Joachim Friedrich, Otto Kirchheimer, Hans Morgenthau, Franz Neumann, and Leo Strauss. Professor Schwab clearly articulates Schmitt's key concepts and relates their centrality to politics and the state, to the political theory of liberalism, democracy and authoritarianism, and to international relations. When Schwab treats Schmitt's interpretations of constitutional questions, for example, he shows how political theory in Germany is inextricably linked with constitutional law, legal theory, and the country's history. Not content to merely deal with Schmitt's profound contributions to twentieth-century thought, Schwab devotes considerable space to the unconscionable compromises that he made with the Third Reich. This, however, failed to help him become the political and legal theorist of Hitler's Germany. Schwab shows how the new Schmitt was suspect from the beginning and, by 1936, Schmitt the hunter had become Schmitt the hunted. Schwab's presentation of the multifaceted Carl Schmitt exposes the reader to a truly interdisciplinary excursion into the humanities and social sciences.
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Schwab, George David was born on November 25, 1931. Son of Arkady and Klara (Jacobson) Schwab.
Bachelor, City College of New York, 1954. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1955. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1968.
Lecturer Columbia College, New York City, 1959, City University of New York, 1960-1968. Assistant professor history, 1968-1972. Associate professor history, 1973-1979.
Professor, 1980—2000. Professor emeritus, since 2001. Member Columbia University Seminar on Law and Political Thought and Institutions.
Director Conference History and Politics City University of New York. With National Committee American Foreign Policy.
( The Challenge of the Exception is the key that unlocked...)
Member Columbia University Seminar on the History of Legal and Political Thought and Institutions. Member American History Association, American Polit.Sci. Association.
Married Eleonora Storch, February 27, 1965. Children: Clarence Boris, Claude Arkady, Solan Bernhard.