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Ex Captivitate Salus

Experiences, 1945–47

Carl Schmitt


Edited by Andreas Kalyvas and Federico Finchelstein

Translated by Matthew Hannah











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IN MEMORIAM
DR. WILHELM AHLMANN
† December 7, 1944

CÆCUS DEO PROPIVS

Translator’s Note

All translator interventions appear in square brackets, either in the main text or in footnotes. Most of Schmitt’s gendered pronouns are left as in the original, in part because he often clearly had himself in mind when writing of anonymous individuals. “Humankind,” “humanity” and related terms are, however, substituted for “man” or “men” where this does not detract from the resulting English. The translator would like to acknowledge the assistance of George Schwab, the virtuoso copy-editing of Manuela Tecusan, the comments and suggestions of Andreas Kalyvas, Federico Finchelstein and Rory Rowan, and the supportive guidance of Paul Young.