The Telos Press Podcast: Alvise Capria on Carl Schmitt in Contemporary Chinese Political Thought

The Telos Press Podcast is back! In our new episode, Telos editor David Pan talks with Alvise Capria about his article “Sous l’œil des Chinois: The Reception of Carl Schmitt in Contemporary Chinese Political Thought,” from Telos 215 (Summer 2026): China and Sovereignty.

An excerpt of Alvise’s article can be found here. Print copies of Telos 215 are now available for purchase in our online store. Back issues of Telos can also be purchased with a 20% discount when you use the coupon code ARCHIVE20 during checkout (while supplies last).

Alvise Capria holds a Master’s degree in Philosophical Sciences from the University of Padua, an Executive Master’s in Marketing and Retail Management from CUOA Business School, and a PhD in Political Philosophy from the University of Padua. He is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at EHESS (Paris), where he is working on a project entitled ISHMAEL (Inquiry into Scarcity: How Modernity Acted for Equality Limitations), which investigates how modern political and legal rationalities have governed scarcity by transforming equality into a problem of limitation.

In their conversation, David and Alvise discuss Carl Schmitt’s influence in China, including what motivated Chinese scholars to turn to Schmitt when considering political theory. Alvise explains to David the key differences between the four currents in the Chinese reception of Schmitt, and the attempt in China to develop an indigenous political theory around Schmitt’s ideas.

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Telos 215 (Summer 2026): China and Sovereignty

Introduction
David Pan

The “Cultural Revolution” in China and World Political Thought
Alexander Lukin

Immanent Critique without Rupture: Daoist Philosophy and the Archaeology of Order
Guojun Jiang

Schmitt in China

Sous l’œil des Chinois: The Reception of Carl Schmitt in Contemporary Chinese Political Thought
Alvise Capria

Carl Schmitt, Nazism, and the Silence of Chinese Intellectuals
Qi Zheng

China’s Schmitt Fever: Instrumentalization of Carl Schmitt by Chinese Ideological Elites
Joseph W. Bendersky

China, Taiwan, and the United States

The Nature of Chinese Communism: Taiwan, Free Societies, and the World of Tomorrow
Gordon G. Chang

The Three Layers of China’s Politeia
Eric Hendriks

China, Sovereignty, and World Order: The Chinese Communist Party’s Attempt to Transform International Norms
David Pan

The Nature of the Chinese Regime and What the United States Should Do
Miles Yu

From Ideology to Strategy: Rethinking the Chinese Challenge
Russell A. Berman

A Quarter Century of Peace and Prosperity
John Graham

Notes and Commentary

Authoritarianism, Totalitarianism, and Boredom: A Rejoinder to Hendriks and Pan
Salvatore Babones

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