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Abstract

Jacques Derrida speaks of a letter from Carl Schmitt to Walter Benjamin which does not actually exist. It is a “Purloined Letter” in which the main defendant is History. From this theft - real or fictitious - a plot unfolds that sheds light on some aspects of the relationship between Schmitt and Benjamin and on the cross-reading of an outsider like Georges Sorel. At stake is the clash between anarchy and statism under the incipient «Um dieser Tiere, reiner und unreiner, willen!».

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