Abstract
The concept and the logic of the political, the most notable Schmittian
ideas, based on the friend/enemy distinction and his thought on political theology
have been widely and critically discussed and actively appropriated with various
interpretations. On the other hand, we find that there is certain definite
momentum piercing through the theoretical structure of Husserl’s phenomenology
in general both as a form of metaphysics and as a philosophical movement, which
can also be called the political. In this circumstance, we find the Schmittian logic
of the political together with his idea of political theology specifically serviceable
for an effective visualization of the political characteristically structured in Husserl’s
system, particularly in the concepts of transcendental subjectivity and universal
critique. This paper argues that Husserl’s phenomenological critical subject is
fundamentally a politico-theological subject and is an attempt to show to what
extent and in what way Schmitt can be strategically utilized to make manifest the
politicality that we discover as something that structurally inheres in Husserlian
notion of subjectivity and critique.
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