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Introduction Introduction
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The Political Challenge of Romantic Occasionalism The Political Challenge of Romantic Occasionalism
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Undermining the Modern Rule of Law: Apocryphal Acts of Sovereignty Undermining the Modern Rule of Law: Apocryphal Acts of Sovereignty
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The Liberal Construction of Exception: Prerogative Power The Liberal Construction of Exception: Prerogative Power
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Sovereign Power as Speech Act Sovereign Power as Speech Act
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“By All Means Necessary”: The Origin of Schmitt’s “Existential” Concept of Sovereignty “By All Means Necessary”: The Origin of Schmitt’s “Existential” Concept of Sovereignty
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An Early Analysis of Modern Biopolitics: “Die Buribunken” An Early Analysis of Modern Biopolitics: “Die Buribunken”
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The Declaration of Domestic Enemies as a Means of Self-Subversion of the State The Declaration of Domestic Enemies as a Means of Self-Subversion of the State
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The Lower Levels of Extermination: Cleansing the Library The Lower Levels of Extermination: Cleansing the Library
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The Realization of the Political: The Dual State The Realization of the Political: The Dual State
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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References References
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24 Carl Schmitt and Modernity
Get accessFriedrich Balke, Institut für Medienwissenschaft, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
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Published:06 January 2015
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Abstract
Carl Schmitt’s political and juridical thought is anchored in a specific diagnosis of modernity. He develops the concept of the political because of how the location and address of the political become fundamentally questionable under modern conditions. Romanticism disempowers the state, the government, indeed all political-public structures and processes, turning them into mere “scenery” or simulacrums that hide an actual or substantial reality. This chapter traces the continued effects of Schmitt’s thought on various diagnoses of a political dialectic of modernity. Each has the changing form and function of sovereign power at its center. The work of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, and Zygmunt Bauman shows that Schmitt’s thought is applicable to the paradox by which sovereign power of decision continues to have a latent effect under the conditions of a constitutional state.
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