Schmittian

English

Etymology

From Schmitt +‎ -ian.

Pronunciation

Adjective

Schmittian (not comparable)

  1. Of, or related to political theorist Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) or his theories.
    • 2020 December 1, Chang Che, “The Nazi Inspiring China’s Communists”, in The Atlantic‎[1], archived from the original on 22 April 2021:
      That China has gotten rid of the virus, which President Donald Trump called “the invisible enemy,” while the United States remains hobbled by it, is portrayed among Chinese statists as a triumph for the Schmittian worldview.
    • 2022 July 21, Imogen Dewey, “Enclave by Claire G Coleman review – why shouldn’t we make a utopia?”, in The Guardian‎[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 July 2022:
      Us and them: the Schmittian fantasy underpinning the binary myth of a carceral state like Safetown, “everybody keeping watch on everybody else”.
    • 2026 January 16, Brendan Simms, “Has a Nazi theorist’s vision of a world divided into ‘great spaces’ found a new advocate in Trump?”, in The Guardian‎[3], →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 January 2026:
      For example, the notorious Eurasianist Alexander Dugin – a key influence on Putin and an intellectual architect of the attack on Ukraine – has been a strong partisan of Schmittian ideas.

Noun

Schmittian (plural Schmittians)

  1. A follower of the ideas of Carl Schmitt.
    • 2020 April 14, Quinta Jurecic, Benjamin Wittes, “Being an Actual Authoritarian Is Too Much Work for Trump”, in The Atlantic‎[4], archived from the original on 4 June 2020:
      Trump may be a Schmittian by instinct and aspiration, but he’s a fair-weather Schmittian only. A true authoritarian, confronted by limits on his power, might have ripped through them in service of establishing his authority.
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