Peter Trawny: Archive Material

The arché is mḗtēr. Not only does it produce new material, but it represents production itself. But the materiality of the traditions changes. The farewell to the manuscript has already happened. What does this mean for the creativity or fertility of the archive?

Reinhard Mehring: The Sources of Carl Schmitt’s Work

Schmitt wrote both exoterically and esoterically and can only be understood in the context of his time and of biographical sources, which Reinhard Mehring has researched intensively as a biographer and editor.

Peter Trawny: Professor of philosophy at the University of Wuppertal, head of the Martin Heidegger Institute, co-editor of the Martin Heidegger Complete Edition, philosopher and author.

Reinhard Mehring: Habilitation in Philosophy (Humboldt University) Berlin), has been Professor of Political Science at the University of Education in Heidelberg since 2007. He has written numerous books on Carl Schmitt and edited important Schmitt correspondence.