Anthropology or ontology of history? The presence of Carl Schmitt in Koselleck´s work

Abstract

This article presents the research results of the stay at the Carl Schmitt Nachlass located in the Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen. The content of the correspondence has been organized with a view to offering solid arguments from the historical point of view to the thesis that Reinhart Koselleck’s project of conceptual history is not so much a method of historical-philological analysis as a theory of modernity. Furthermore, this correspondence serves as a point of reference to analyze the deep personal and intellectual relationship between Koselleck and Schmitt.