Giovanni Gentile e Carl Schmitt. Nello Stato, contro lo Stato

This essay aims at reconstructing those intellectual and personal events which led Carl Schmitt in Germany and Giovanni Gentile in Italy to initially adhere to Fascism and National Socialism. These elements are usefull to understand the main reasons of their participation in the regimes and especially their subsequent estrangement from their political life. Indeed, both Gentile and Schmitt were branded as unorthodox authors and therefore as enemies of the State itself; because of their political theories, they underwent numerous attacks from the intransigent fringes, until they were placed on the margins of that State which they had deeply contributed to build.