Il libro del mese n. 30 - P. Chiantera-Stutte, U. Jureit, Geo-Political Spaces - 8 giugno 2026

Nell’ambito del ciclo “Il libro del mese” presentiamo online il volume curato da Patricia Chiantera-Stutte e Ulrike Jureit, "Geo-Political Spaces: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Carl Schmitt", Routledge 2025. Introduce e modera l’incontro Francesca Russo (Università Suor Orsola Benincasa). A discutere con la curatrice Patricia Chiantera-Stutte (Università di Bari) sono Carlo Galli (Università di Bologna) e Geminello Preterossi (Università di Salerno). This book focuses on the geographical and geopolitical sources for Carl Schmitt’s multilayered political thinking in order to uncover the relation between the political and the geographical aspects of his concept of space from 1939 to 1950. The aim is therefore to open up a field of enquiry, specifically to investigate Schmitt’s sources in the geographical and geopolitical literature inside and outside Germany in order to reconstruct the genealogy of his idea of space, territory and international order. In doing so, the contributors aim both to distinguish concepts that have generally been only vaguely defined in the literature on Schmitt, namely his idea of space, political territory and land, and to define more precisely the relationship between Schmitt’s Großraum and the National Socialist Lebensraum.