Joseph Bendersky
Joseph W. Bendersky , full Joseph William Bendersky (* 1946 ) is an American historian. Bendersky was best known as the biographer of the German constitutional lawyer Carl Schmitt .
Live and act
Bendersky earned a PhD from Michigan State University in 1975 . He currently teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond .
His main research interests are modern German history, anti-Semitism , the Holocaust and especially the legal scholar Carl Schmitt. A biography that Bendersky wrote about him has been translated into Italian and Japanese, among others.
In addition to his book publications, Bendersky has published articles for such journals as American Jewish History , Military History Journal , the Journal of Contemporary History , Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, and Telos . In addition, he prepared an American translation of Carl Schmitt's legal theory work On the Three Types of Legal Thought (1934) and equipped it with a text-critical commentary.
Fonts
- As an author
- Carl Schmitt, theorist for the Reich . Princeton University Press, Princeton 1983.
- The "Jewish threat": anti-semitic politics of the US Army . Basic Books, New York 2000.
- A Concise History of Nazi Germany . 4th edition. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2014.
- As a translator / commentator
- Carl Schmitt: On the Three Types of Juristic Thought , 2004.
Web links
- Bendersky's side at the VCU
- Bendersky at academic.research.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bendersky, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bendersky, Joseph W .; Bendersky, Joseph William (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1946 |