Der Begriff Des Politischen. Text Von 1932 Mit Einem Vorwort Und Drei Corollarien by Carl Schmitt

Text von 1932 mit einem Vorwort und drei Corollarien

This short, polemical treatise argues that the political is an autonomous sphere defined by the existential distinction between friend and enemy, irreducible to moral, economic, or aesthetic categories; it critiques liberal pluralism and parliamentary compromise for obscuring the reality of collective conflict and emphasizes the decisive, sovereign capacity to recognize and act upon political enmity. The text defends the primacy of collective identity and conflict in shaping states and decisions, explores the implications of this friend–enemy logic for questions of sovereignty, exception, and the character of political order, and offers corollaries that extend its decisionist critique of liberal norms.

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