Welch gütiges Schicksal

This key document on the history of public law puts into the heart of the so-called "Schmitt School" and is carried by intensive devotion and exciting argumentative and factual seriousness. At the same time, Schmitt repeatedly opposes Böckenförde's "Schmitt project": the attempt at political-theological rein, legal canonization, and adaptation for the Federal Republic. The edition is supplemented by further correspondence and materials. A selection of smaller texts documents Böckenförde's ongoing engagement with Schmitt scholarship as well as the transformation of his "political theology" into the more recent situation and times.