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Reinhart Koselleck e Carl Schmitt | Fotos: Neue Bürcher Zeitung e Prodavinci

The correspondence between the conceptual historian Reinhart Koselleck (1923–2006) and the radical-conservative legal and political theorist Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) is certain to attract scholarly attention—and to produce expectations. So far, we have only caught unsystematic glimpses of these theorists’ private exchanges, which began in the early 1950s. Scholarship on Koselleck, particularly Niklas Olsen’s History in the Plural: An Introduction to the Work of Reinhart Koselleck and Gennaro Imbriano’s Der Begriff der Politik: Die Moderne als Krisenzeit im Werk von Reinhart Koselleck, which is under review here, has utilized the correspondence and related archival sources, albeit noncomprehensively and without assessing their overall import for the Schmitt/Koselleck question.¹ With the letters now made available in 2019’s Der Briefwechsel: 1953–1983, edited by Jan Eike Dunkhase, the wider (German-speaking) audience can form its own opinions about the thinkers’ relationship and assess their similarities and differences. Leia Mais