Carl Schmitt's institutional theory : the political power of normality
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Carl Schmitt's institutional theory : the political power of normality
Cambridge University Press, 2022
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-156) and index
Summary: "It is somewhat ironic that this book comes out in the centenary of Political Theology, first published in 1922. In the end, one of the main claims we shall make here is that Carl Schmitt's celebrated essay has been unduly overemphasised and that it formulated a theory of law and a conception of normality that he himself dismantled a few years after its publication. A related claim will be that interpretations that identify a connection between Political Theology and successive works such as The Concept of the Political (1928) and Constitutional Theory (1928) are wrong in at least one important respect: through those works, Schmitt tried to pull himself out of the quagmire in which he was bogged down in 1922, viz., the problematic conception that we shall dub "exceptionalist decisionism." But we shall have to go further. Works that are coeval with Political Theology, such as Dictatorship (1921) and Roman Catholicism and Political Form (1923), offer much leeway for criticising exceptionalist decisioni
Contents of Works
- What is exceptionalist decisionism? Reinterpreting political theology
- Looking backward : Schmitt before exceptionalist decisionis
- How exceptionalist decisionism came about : Schmitt and coeval critics
- A fresh start : Schmitt and state pluralism
- Out of the exceptionalist quagmire : the notion of institution in Schmitt's thinking
- The politics of normality : Schmitt's concrete-order thinking
- Doing away with politics : Schmitt's juristic institutionalism
