German jurist and legal theorist Carl Schmitt 1888-1985 significantly influenced Western political and legal thinking in the last century, yet his life and work have also stirred considerable controversy. While his ideas have been used and diffused by prominent philosophers on both the left and the right, such as Jurgen Habermas and Leo Strauss, his Nazi-era past, especially his active efforts to remove Jewish influence from German law, has cast a cloud over his life and oeuvre. Still, his many supporters have generally been successful in claiming that Schmitt's was an antisemitism of opportunity, a temporary affectation to gain favor with the Nazis. br In iCarl Schmitt and the Jewsi, available in English for the first time, historian Raphael Gross vigorously repudiates this opportunism thesis. Through a reading of Schmitt's corpus, some of which became available only after his death, Gross highlights the importance of the Jewish Question on the breadth of Schmitt's work. According to