Publications
Books
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Books
- Carl Schmitt’s State and Constitutional Theory: A Critical Analysis. (Oxford University Press, 2017).
- Morgenthau mal compris: The Philosophical Roots of Hans Morgenthau’s Political Realism. (VDM Publishing, 2011).
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- “Constraining Political Extremism and Legal Revolution” Philosophy and Social Criticism, Forthcoming.
- “Thoughtlessness & Resentment: Determinism and Moral Responsibility in the Case of Adolf Eichmann” Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2014, 40(2), 127–144.
- "A Pessimism of Strength? Tragedy and Political Virtue" in Tragedy and International Relations. ed. Toni Erskine and Richard Ned Lebow. “(New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012), 129-143.
- Review of The Remnants of the Rechtsstaat: An Ethnography of Nazi Law. Jens Meierhenrich. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). Perspectives on Politics. Vol. 17 (1).
- Review of Power, Knowledge, and Dissent in Morgenthau’s Worldview. Felix Rösch. (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015). European Review of International Studies. 2017. Vol 4(2-3), 122-126.
- Review of Carl Schmitt: A Biography. By Reinhard Mehring (Malden, MA: Polity, 2014). Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory. 2016. Vol. 23(2), 320-321.
- “Emergency Powers and Trump: Lessons from Carl Schmitt” Public Seminar. March 22, 2019. http://www.publicseminar.org/2019/03/emergency-powers-and-trump-lessons-from-carl-schmitt/
- "Political Extremism and Liberal Democracy." H-Diplo. July 25, 2018. https://issforum.org/roundtables/policy/1-5bj-extrimist
- "Carl Schmitt and Democratic Cannibalism." 3:AM Magazine. June 16, 2018. (UPDATE: Moved to 3:16) https://316am.site123.me/articles/carl-schmitt-and-democratic-cannibalism?c=end-times-archive
- "Responding to the Rise of Extremist Populism." OUPblog. February 5, 2018. https://blog.oup.com/2018/02/rise-extremist-populism/
- “Iraq Invasion Fraught with Costs.” The Heights, October 29, 2002.
- “Constraining Political Extremism and Legal Revolution” Philosophy and Social Criticism, Forthcoming.
- “Thoughtlessness & Resentment: Determinism and Moral Responsibility in the Case of Adolf Eichmann” Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2014, 40(2), 127–144.
- "A Pessimism of Strength? Tragedy and Political Virtue" in Tragedy and International Relations. ed. Toni Erskine and Richard Ned Lebow. “(New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012), 129-143.
Working Papers
- Thought and Freedom in an Age of 3rd Screens and 5G
- Overview of a Theory of Constrained Democracy
- On the Realist Opposition of ‘Morality’ and ‘Politics’
- “Quis Judicabit?” Political Theology, Disenchantment, and Political Crisis
- The Legitimacy of the Law: An Analysis of Plato’s Statesman
- Collection of Carl Schmitt’s (untranslated) Articles on State and Constitutional Theory and the Weimar Constitution, with a critical editorial introduction by Benjamin A. Schupmann.
- Potential chapters for this project are listed here
Research Interests
Liberalism, Democracy, Constrained/Militant Democracy, Constitutionalism, State Theory, Populism, Political Extremism, Liberty, Thoughtlessness, Tragedy, History of Political Thought
I am particularly interested in German (Central European) political and legal thought from the last century, including the work of Marx, Weber, Schmitt, Kelsen, Heller, Polanyi, Neumann, Kirchheimer, Loewenstein, Arendt, Habermas, Streeck and Honneth.
Liberalism, Democracy, Constrained/Militant Democracy, Constitutionalism, State Theory, Populism, Political Extremism, Liberty, Thoughtlessness, Tragedy, History of Political Thought
I am particularly interested in German (Central European) political and legal thought from the last century, including the work of Marx, Weber, Schmitt, Kelsen, Heller, Polanyi, Neumann, Kirchheimer, Loewenstein, Arendt, Habermas, Streeck and Honneth.