Schmitt’s enemy concept reached US neoconservatism through Leo Strauss
Evidence
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
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s standing interest in ideology transmission and intellectual lineage; also notes the ‘weaponized philosophy’ pattern visible in other sources about how European ideas get repurposed in American empire.
- QUESTION: Shapiro/Strauss scholars debate how central Schmitt was to Strauss’s own thought — this is a contested lineage worth verifying.