Description: How did the relationship between the politically very disparate theorists Carl Schmitt and Otto Kirchheim shape their political thinking? Hubertus Buchstein investigates the personal, political, and theoretical dimensions between the infamous legal theorist Schmitt and his former student Kirchheimer.
Brief description: Hubertus Buchstein, born in 1959, works as a professor for political theory at Universität Greifswald, Germany. He did his doctorate at Freie Universität Berlin and has taught at the New School for Social Research in New York. His research focusses on modern democratic theory, Critical Theory and the history of political ideas.