Carl Schmitt and the two faces of critique: sovereignty, constituent power, and the political in the work of Carl Schmitt
Abstract
Is it possible to update specific concepts or notions of Schmitt's thought, such as sovereignty, constituent power, or the political, which were developed during the Weimar Republic? Or does the author's involvement with National Socialism retroactively reveal a fixed and endogenous tendency towards Nazism in these concepts, making any subsequent use of them impossible? The central thesis argued in the dissertation is that any attempt to return to Schmitt risks being diverted into completely barren paths if it does not take into account a fundamental contradiction, related to the method of internal structuring of his concepts from 1922 to 1931. At its core are two incompatible interpretations of the function of the exception, one extremely fruitful and one deeply problematic. The German jurist's alignment with Nazism can be explained, at least in part, in light of the gradual predominance of the second of these interpretive tendencies in his thought over the first. Therefore, any attem ...
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