Transcription and online/print edition of the diaries of Carl Schmitt during the Second World War

该项目将实现卡尔·施密特(1888-1985)第二次世界大战(1943-1944)时期日记的全面数字开放获取版。施密特是20世纪最具争议的德国法律理论家和政治思想家，在国际上被广泛讨论，但因致力于国家社会主义和他的反犹太主义而臭名昭著。与已出版的日记(1912-1919、1921-1934、1947-1958)相比，1939-1946的日记尤为重要。首先，它们是评估施密特在1933年至1936年公开参与之后对国家社会主义态度的重要来源，也就是施密特只是偶尔发表文章的时期。作为“全面战争”时期的罕见自我主义文件，它们可以揭示一个传记阶段，到目前为止，这个阶段还没有得到很好的阐明，也是关于施密特与柏林纳粹精英如约翰尼斯·波皮茨和汉斯·弗兰克的持续亲近。其次，就施密特的学术工作而言，这些日记比他生命中其他时代的日记要多得多。大量的文本更像是一本工作日记，而不是一本传统的日记。文本语料库包含了施密特战后最重要的著作--1950年的《欧洲公法中的地球的诺莫斯》--的大量草稿、初步考虑和摘录，这本书基本上是在1943年至1945年之间撰写的。在当代国际法和国际关系中，特别是在重新评估自由和殖民国际法的辩论中，这本书最近受到了广泛和有争议的讨论。这使得尽可能多地披露施密特在20世纪40年代的NOMOS项目的学术背景变得更加重要。由于日记完全是用罕见的、现已灭绝的施密特速记形式(Gabelsberger)写下的，因此在进行主要编辑工作之前，笔记将首先由著名的历史速记专家音译。文本和评论最终将以基于TEI-XML的混合(数字/印刷)开放获取版发布。

The project will realize a comprehensive digital open-access edition of the diaries of Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) from the years of the Second World War (1943-44). Schmitt is the most controversial German legal theorist and political thinker of the 20th century, internationally widely discussed and yet notorious because of his commitment to National Socialism and his anti-Semitism. Compared to the diaries already published (1912 to 1919, 1921 to 1934, and 1947 to 1958), those from 1939 to 1946 are of particular importance. First, they are an important source for the assessment of Schmitt’s attitude to National Socialism after the period of his open engagement in the years 1933 to 1936, that is in a time when Schmitt published only occasionally. As rare egodocuments from the period of “total war”, they can shed light on a biographical phase, which so far is poorly illuminated, also with regard to Schmitt's continued proximity to Berlin Nazi elites such as Johannes Popitz and Hans Frank. Second, these diaries are far more yielding in terms of Schmitt’s scholarly work than those from other times of his life. Large amounts of the text resemble rather a working journal than a conventional diary. The text corpus contains numerous sketches, preliminary considerations and excerpts for Schmitt's most important postwar work, the 1950 "The Nomos of the Earth in International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum”, which was essentially written from 1943 to 1945. In contemporary International Law and in International Relations, in particular in the debates over a reassessment of liberal and colonial international law, this book has recently been widely and controversially discussed. This makes it all the more important to disclose as much as possible the intellectual context of Schmitt’s Nomos-project in the 1940s.Since the diaries are entirely written down in the rare and now extinct form of shorthand Schmitt used (Gabelsberger), the notes will first be transliterated by renowned experts in historical stenography before the main editorial work can be carried out. The texts and comments will finally be published in a hybrid (digital/print) TEI-XML-based open access edition.