- The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt
- List of Contributors
- Carl Schmitt’s Life: A Chronology
- List of Carl Schmitt’s Writings
- “A Fanatic of Order in an Epoch of Confusing Turmoil”: The Political, Legal, and Cultural Thought of Carl Schmitt
- A “Catholic Layman of German Nationality and Citizenship”?: Carl Schmitt and the Religiosity of Life
- The “True Enemy”: Antisemitism in Carl Schmitt’s Life and Work
- Schmitt’s Diaries
- Carl Schmitt in Plettenberg
- Fearing the Disorder of Things: The Development of Carl Schmitt’s Institutional Theory, 1919–1942
- Carl Schmitt’s Political Theory of Dictatorship
- The Political Theology of Carl Schmitt
- Teaching in Vain: Carl Schmitt, Thomas Hobbes, and the Theory of the Sovereign State
- Concepts of the Political in Twentieth-Century European Thought
- Carl Schmitt’s Defense of Democracy
- Same/Other versus Friend/Enemy: Levinas contra Schmitt
- Carl Schmitt’s Concepts of War: A Categorical Failure
- Carl Schmitt’s Concept of History
- What’s “Left” in Schmitt?: From Aversion to Appropriation in Contemporary Political Theory
- A Jurist Confronting Himself: Carl Schmitt’s Jurisprudential Thought
- Carl Schmitt and the Weimar Constitution
- The Concept of the Rule-of-Law State in Carl Schmitt’s Verfassungslehre
- Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt: Growing Discord, Culminating in the “Guardian” Controversy of 1931
- States of Emergency
- Politonomy
- Carl Schmitt and International Law
- Demystifying Schmitt
- Carl Schmitt and Modernity
- Is “the Political” a Romantic Concept?: Novalis’s Faith and Love or The King and Queen with Reference to Carl Schmitt
- Walter Benjamin’s Esteem for Carl Schmitt
- Legitimacy of the Modern Age?: Hans Blumenberg and Carl Schmitt
- Tragedy as Exception in Carl Schmitt’s Hamlet or Hecuba
- At the Limits of Rhetoric: Authority, Commonplace, and the Role of Literature in Carl Schmitt
- Carl Schmitt’s Spatial Rhetoric
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter situates Schmitt as a jurist and specifically as a scholar occupying a distinctive position within German state theory. Schmitt’s overall objective was to build a theory of the constitution of political authority from the most basic elements of the subject, and in this respect he sought to make a contribution to the discipline of politonomy. A concept first alluded to by Schmitt but one he never developed, politonomy concerns the inquiry into the most basic laws and practices of the political. The chapter examines Schmitt’s ambivalent position in politonomy, which was rooted in his distrust of the scientific significance of general concepts. To the extent that Schmitt acknowledged the existence of a law of the political, this chapter argues that it is found implicitly within his embrace of institutionalism in the 1930s and later in his account of nomos as the basic law of appropriation, division, and production.
Keywords: Schmitt, politonomy, Staatslehre, institutionalism, concrete order thinking, nomos
Martin Loughlin is Professor of Public Law and Head of the Department of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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- The Oxford Handbook of Carl Schmitt
- List of Contributors
- Carl Schmitt’s Life: A Chronology
- List of Carl Schmitt’s Writings
- “A Fanatic of Order in an Epoch of Confusing Turmoil”: The Political, Legal, and Cultural Thought of Carl Schmitt
- A “Catholic Layman of German Nationality and Citizenship”?: Carl Schmitt and the Religiosity of Life
- The “True Enemy”: Antisemitism in Carl Schmitt’s Life and Work
- Schmitt’s Diaries
- Carl Schmitt in Plettenberg
- Fearing the Disorder of Things: The Development of Carl Schmitt’s Institutional Theory, 1919–1942
- Carl Schmitt’s Political Theory of Dictatorship
- The Political Theology of Carl Schmitt
- Teaching in Vain: Carl Schmitt, Thomas Hobbes, and the Theory of the Sovereign State
- Concepts of the Political in Twentieth-Century European Thought
- Carl Schmitt’s Defense of Democracy
- Same/Other versus Friend/Enemy: Levinas contra Schmitt
- Carl Schmitt’s Concepts of War: A Categorical Failure
- Carl Schmitt’s Concept of History
- What’s “Left” in Schmitt?: From Aversion to Appropriation in Contemporary Political Theory
- A Jurist Confronting Himself: Carl Schmitt’s Jurisprudential Thought
- Carl Schmitt and the Weimar Constitution
- The Concept of the Rule-of-Law State in Carl Schmitt’s Verfassungslehre
- Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt: Growing Discord, Culminating in the “Guardian” Controversy of 1931
- States of Emergency
- Politonomy
- Carl Schmitt and International Law
- Demystifying Schmitt
- Carl Schmitt and Modernity
- Is “the Political” a Romantic Concept?: Novalis’s Faith and Love or The King and Queen with Reference to Carl Schmitt
- Walter Benjamin’s Esteem for Carl Schmitt
- Legitimacy of the Modern Age?: Hans Blumenberg and Carl Schmitt
- Tragedy as Exception in Carl Schmitt’s Hamlet or Hecuba
- At the Limits of Rhetoric: Authority, Commonplace, and the Role of Literature in Carl Schmitt
- Carl Schmitt’s Spatial Rhetoric
- Index
