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Carl Schmitt: Political Enemies

  • All levels
  • 21 and older
  • $315
  • 178 Stanton St, New York, NY
  • 12 hours over 4 sessions

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  • $315
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In this class, we will read several of Schmitt’s key works in their entirety, including The Concept of the Political, Political Theology, and The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy, as well as key selections from later thinkers influenced by Schmitt. We will examine questions such as: what is “the political”? What is sovereignty? What is enmity and what is war? Why do we have a state? What are the boundaries between politics and reason? Students will study key documents in what Giorgio Agamben hyperbolically calls the “Benjamin/Schmitt Dossier” and explore some of the controversial influence of Schmitt on Frankfurt School thinkers like Otto Kirchheimer and Franz Neumann. Finally, we will ask what, if anything, Schmitt’s work can say to the present political condition.

The specific distinction to which political motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.” With this claim, Carl Schmitt outlined one of the most incisive understandings of political thought in modern times, outlining politics as distinct from questions of morality (good or evil), or aesthetics (beauty and ugliness) and so on. In recent decades, there has been a surprising resurgence of interest in the work of the influential Nazi jurist and political theorist. From neoconservative doctrines of the “unitary executive” to many strands of leftist thought, Schmitt’s ideas have found new purchase in our contemporary political landscape. Schmitt was a towering figure in the Weimar period. Next to Martin Heidegger, he stands as perhaps the most important and influential thinker often associated with Nazism.  But whereas Heidegger’s work mystifies many of even his most ardent followers, Schmitt offers up lucid, shockingly original arguments in the form of short, incisive essays. On the right – where Schmitt’s influence is most evident in the explosion of his ideas in legal arguments and briefs since the beginning of the “War on Terror” – his ideas erect a legal scaffold for an absolute hierarchical political order in which decisive executive action and order organize a powerful state apparatus. On the left, disparate thinkers like Giorgio Agamben, Chantal Mouffe, Antonio Negri, and many other “Left-Schmittians” are drawn to Schmitt’s clear demarcation of “the political” as the site where an existential enemy is defined against whom violence is possible, or to Schmitt’s definition of the sovereign – ‘he who decides the exception’ – as marking the beginnings of political arguments or alternatively the very condition which must be overcome. But nearly all share a fascination with Schmitt’s unique contribution to modern political theory: drawing on often-neglected strands of Counter-Enlightenment thought and medieval Christian theology, Schmitt articulated one of the most thorough and cogent non-Marxist critiques of the liberal order.

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