A Philosophy of Concrete Life: Carl Schmitt and the Political Thought of Late ModernityCarl Schmitt is one of the most influential political and legal theorists of the 20th century. His ideas have long been familiar to intellectuals in Europe. Despite growing interest in Schmitt, the analysis of the metaphysical structure and logic of Schmitt's political thought is still missing. This book tries to redress this flaw. It focuses on Schmitt's conception of the concrete, which is seen as the "metaphysical core" of his writings. For Schmitt, the concrete is a condition of possibility of any order. Rather that a concept, it is a name for a borderline or a passage between a concept and life, between a mediating idea and an immediate existence. In addition to the structure and logic of Schmitt's thought, the book is a short presentation of all central themes in Schmitt's writings from Political Theology (1922) to The Nomos of the Earth (1950). |
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Preface | 7 |
METAPHYSICAL CHARACTER | 17 |
SOVEREIGN AND LAW | 33 |
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abstract According to Schmitt Age of Neutralizations Antichrist antithesis appropriation Arendt Beck becomes Carl Schmitt century Christian concrete order constitution contrary counter-modernity Crisis decisionist Deleuze & Guattari democracy democratic dictatorship Donoso Drei Arten Duncker & Humblot epoch Ernst Jünger ethical event exception existence existential fact Foucault foundation Georges Bataille German Giorgio Agamben Hannah Arendt Hegel Heidegger Hobbes human idea identity immanence insofar instance Ius publicum Kelsen late modernity legal order legal positivism Leviathan liberal machine means metaphysical metaphysical image Michel Foucault myth nature nevertheless Nietzsche nomadic Nomos der Erde norm original Panopticon parliamentarism perspective philosophy of concrete political entity Political Romanticism Political Theology political thought precisely presupposes principle rationalist rationality real possibility reality reason representation represents Roman Catholicism Romanticism rule Schmitt's concept Schmitt's political Schmitt's thought Schmitt's view signifies Slavoj Žižek society sovereignty space sphere theory thereby Thousand Plateaus transcendence University Press valid Verfassungslehre whilst