Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 11
4. Translator’s Preface 15
5. Chapter 1: Introduction: Refuting the Legends 25
6. The Weimar Republic
7. Chapter 2: The Beginnings in Bonn (1926–1928) 49
8. Chapter 3: Democracy in Disagreement (1928–1931) 67
9. Chapter 4: Two Versions of Anti-Imperialism 105
10. Chapter 5: Escalating Antagonisms (1932) 121
11. Chapter 6: The Methodological Debate and Weimar’s Final Days (1933) 145
12. Schmitt in Nazi Germany and Kirchheimer in Exile
13. Chapter 7: The Consolidation of the Third Reich (1933–1934) 169
14. Chapter 8: Confrontations Across Borders (1935–1937) 201
15. Chapter 9: From Leviathan to Behemoth (1938–1942) 223
16. Chapter 10: Practicing Antisemitism and Analyzing Antisemitism 255
17. Chapter 11: Preparing Germany for New Wars (1936–1939) 281
18. Chapter 12: From Großraum Theory to the Escalation of World War II (1939–1942) 295
19. Chapter 13: On the Road to the Nuremberg Trials (1943–1945) 325
20. Postwar Democracies
21. Chapter 14: Dealing with the Future—and the Past (1946–1948) 349
22. Chapter 15: Renewed Contact and Controversy (1949–1956) 381
23. Chapter 16: Juridification and Political Justice (1957–1961) 415
24. Chapter 17: The Final Break (1962–1965) 447
25. Conclusion
26. Chapter 18: Kirchheimer’s Strategies for Debating Schmitt 477
27. Appendix
28. Abbreviations 501
29. List of German Courts 503
30. Glossary 507
31. Sources and Bibliography 517
32. Index of Names 567