Schmitt’s concept of the enemy entered US civilizational thinking via Leo Strauss

Evidence

While both neoconservative ideology and civilizational thinking are of European origin, they came to American shores via Leo Strauss and his students and disciples at the University of Chicago, who included both Bloom and Fukuyama. The link between Strauss and the Nazi political theorist Karl Schmitt is of paramount importance here25—for it is Schmitt’s concept of “the enemy” that through Strauss, then Fukuyama and Huntington, gradually narrows in on Islam. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 80

Categorization

• QUESTION: This lineage from Nazi jurist Schmitt to neoconservative doctrine is worth chasing — direct intellectual descent claim.

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• Schmitt’s enemy concept reached US neoconservatism through Leo Strauss (similarity 0.95)