while schmitt's influence waned upon his association with the nazis, among those of his generation citing him as an influence were michels, mannheim, benjamin, friedrich, arendt, marcuse, horkheimer, neumann, morgenthau...
schmitt's ambition and sense of self-preservation may well have been enough for him to decide to affiliate with the nazis, but heidegger encouraged him to do so, saying that together they would become the philosophers of the new order...
some renewal of interest in schmitt - particularly his critiques of bourgeois liberalism, faith in science, and historical progress - is probably understandable given certain intellectual interests of recent past... mh