Eduardo Schmidt Passos

Referred Journal Articles

“What is Political Theology? Augustine’s Critique of Civil and Natural Theology,” European Journal of Political Theory (online first 2025). https://doi.org/10.1177/14748851251337341 

“Tyranny in the Americas: Sarmiento’s Tocquevillian Science and Modern Tyranny,” Political Science Reviewer, Vol. 48 No. 2 (2024): 115-138. https://politicalsciencereviewer.com/index.php/psr/article/view/841/1012

“Leo Strauss, the Latin Averroists, and the Eternity of the World,” History of Political Thought, Vol. XLV, No. 1 (Spring 2024): 39-60. https://doi.org/10.53765/20512988.45.1.39

“Race and State: Voegelin, Bolívar, and Bonifácio on Race and Latin American Political Thought,” Eric Voegelin Studies Yearbook Vol. 3 (2024): 137-154. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846768860_006

“Political Thought and Race Ideas in Brazil: Oliveira Vianna and Gilberto Freyre,” Comparative Political Theory Vol. 3, No. 1 (2023): 53-73. https://doi.org/10.1163/26669773-bja10046

“Eric Voegelin and the Natural Law Tradition,” Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 48, Issue 3 (2019): 210-217. https://doi.org/10.1080/10457097.2019.1612506

“The Blood of the Martyrs: Erik Peterson’s Theology of Martyrdom and Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology of Sovereignty,” The Review of Politics, Vol. 80, No. 3 (Summer 2018): 487–510. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670518000220

“Carl Schmitt’s Political Theory during the Third Reich,” Political Science Reviewer, Vol. 42, No. 1 (June 2018): 197-217. https://politicalsciencereviewer.com/index.php/psr/article/view/541/518

“Eric Voegelin e as Religiões Políticas: o Substrato Comum entre a Religião e a Política” [Eric Voegelin and the Political Religions: the Common Ground between Religion and Politics], Revista Sol Nascente - Revista do Centro de Investigação sobre Ética Aplicada, Vol. 1 (2012): 10-18.

Book Chapter, Encyclopedia Entry, and Others

“Schmitt, Carl.” In Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Theory and Philosophy. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing (forthcoming, Fall 2025).

Book Reviews

“Political Thought in Portugal and its Empire, c.1500–1800, edited Pedro Cardim and Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro,” The Review of Politics, Vol. 86, Issue 2, (Spring 2024). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670523000803

“Carl Schmitt’s Early Legal-Theoretical Writings: Statute and Judgment and the Value of the State and the Significance of the Individual,” Contemporary Political Theory 22 (Suppl 1), 34–37 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-022-00551-y

“The Political Discourse of Carl Schmitt: A Mystic of Order by Montserrat Herrero (Book Review),” Voegelin View, (September 2017). https://voegelinview.com/political-discourse-carl-schmitt-mystic-order/

“Francis Fukuyama’s The Origins of the Political Order (Book Review),” Leviathan: Cadernos de Pesquisa Política, No. 6 (2013): 153-158. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2237-4485.lev.2013.132327

Other Publications

“Donald Trump e o Fim de uma Era” [Donald Trump and the End of an Era], Diário Catarinense, Florianópolis, Brazil, February 4, 2017.

“Teoria Pura e Impura do Direito: Kelsen, Schmitt e Voegelin” [Pure and Impure Theory of Law: Kelsen, Schmitt and Voegelin], Dicta & Contradicta, No. 07 (Jun. 2012).

“Justiça e Democracia na Tragédia As Suplicantes de Ésquilo” [Justice and Democracy in Aeschylus’ The Suppliant Women], in Anais da II Semana de Direitos Humanos da UFSC (Curitiba: Multideia, 2011): 123-132.