The Theory of the Partisan Page 1 ● 1 The Theory of the Partisan A Commentary/Remark on
the Concept of the Political Carl Schmitt Translated by AC Goodson, Michigan State University,
East Lansing Dedicated to Ernst Forsthoff on his 60th Birthday, 13 September 1962 [7]
PREFATORY NOTE This treatise on The Theory of the Partisan has its origin in two lectures
given in spring 1962, on 15 March in Pamplona at the invitation of Estudio General de Navarra,
and on 17 March at the University of Saragossa, in the context of the events of the Cátedra …

INTRODUCTION View of the Initial Situation 1808-13 The starting point of our
considerations concerning the problem of the partisan is the guerrilla war that the Spanish
people waged against the army of a foreign conqueror between 1808 and 1813. In this war,
a pre-bourgeois, pre-industrial, pre-conventional people for the first time confronted a
modern, well-organized, regular army that had evolved from the experiences of the French
Revolution. This opened new horizons to the art of war, paving the way for a new …