Carl Schmitt and the Politics of Hostility, Violence and Terror

Slomp, Gabriella

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“…98 This scheme determines any efforts in association, dissociation, participation, and separation; "from Schmitt's political theory, the friend/enemy principle emerges as the skeleton supporting and surviving all the various 'incarnations' of the political, from the Greek polis to the nation state, from the revolutionary party to the terrorist group." 99 The authors of our sample texts try to influence the readers to disapprove of the adversarial "other." Additionally, Post states the importance of the credo "It's not us-it's them" above all, especially for individuals with feelings of inadequacy or lack of success in their former lives.…”

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The Discursive Construction of Terrorist Group Identity

Rothenberger

Müller

Elmezeny

2016

Terrorism and Political Violence

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The Discursive Construction of Terrorist Group Identity

Rothenberger

Müller

Elmezeny

2016

Terrorism and Political Violence

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“…Axtmann, 2007;Benhabib, 2012;Hooker, 2009;Koskenniemi, 2004;Legg, 2011;Odysseos and Petito, 2007;Scheuerman, 2006;Slomp, 2009;Teschke, 2011). Most noticeably, an appropriation of Schmitt from the Left has gained strength in the last decade (see e.g.…”

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Hannah Arendt reads Carl Schmitt’s The Nomos of the Earth: A dialogue on law and geopolitics from the margins

Jurkevics

2015

European Journal of Political Theory

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Many studies have deduced subterranean dialogues between Hannah Arendt and Carl Schmitt from indirect evidence. This article uses new evidence from marginalia in Arendt's copy of Nomos of the Earth and finds that she formed, but never published, an incisive critique of Schmitt's geopolitics. Through an analysis of Arendt's comments on the topics of soil, conquest, and contract, I show that Arendt deemed Schmitt's theory to be imperialist and in contradiction with itself. Her reading of Schmitt prompts important new questions regarding the scholarly use of Schmitt's conception of nomos as a tool of critique against American empire in the post-9/11 era. The marginalia also suggests, against past scholarship, that Arendt thought justice should play a central role in politics. I propose that we look to Arendt's own conception of nomos, which she developed later, in order to form an alternative geopolitics. Because of her focus on intersubjective world-building, Arendt's nomos embraces contract and promise-making, and thus provides the foundation for a theory of geopolitics and law that is as necessarily democratic as Schmitt's is violent.

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“…2 2 On the recent Schmitt reception in political philosophy see for example Roland Axtmann; Catherine Colliot‐Thélène (1999); Jef Huysmans (2008); Andreas Kalyvas (2008); Tarik Kochi (2006); David Pan (2009); Sergei Prozorov (2005); William Rasch (1999, 2000, 2003); William E. Scheuerman (2006a); Gabriella Slomp (2009); Danilo Zolo (2002). …”

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The Concept of Sovereignty in Contemporary Continental Political Philosophy

Erlenbusch

2012

Philosophy Compass

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The concept of sovereignty is one of the central concepts of modern political philosophy. However, faced with processes of economic globalization as well as legal and political universalism, contemporary political theory struggles to account for the exercise of state power in terms of the traditional understanding of sovereignty. This survey article reviews the most influential conceptualizations of sovereignty in contemporary continental political philosophy. These include Schmitt’s defense of sovereignty and Agamben’s rejection of sovereign politics as well as a number of theoretical attempts to account for the complexities of sovereignty and its adaptation to new political circumstances.

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Carl Schmitt and the Politics of Hostility, Violence and Terror

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The Discursive Construction of Terrorist Group Identity

The Discursive Construction of Terrorist Group Identity

Hannah Arendt reads Carl Schmitt’s The Nomos of the Earth: A dialogue on law and geopolitics from the margins

The Concept of Sovereignty in Contemporary Continental Political Philosophy

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