Il revival dei confini: una crisi di identità (o di crescita) dei princìpi democratici
The “revival of the borders”: an identity crisis of democratic principles

Summary/Abstract: In different parts of the world we notice a kind of revival of the borders, that turn into walls even after the condemnation proclaimed against the latter at the time of the most famous Wall: the Berlin Wall. Behind the walls, the stereotyped image of the Enemy resurfaces, and Carl Schmitt’s thought about the connection between sovereign space and nomos becomes topical again. This thought is intertwined with the increasingly topical reflection on the intricate and contradictory relation between sovereignty and democracy. In this resumption of the relation between sovereignty and (armored) borders, the greatest dilemma is indeed the participation of the democracies in this process – first the Usa. In order to overcome its identity crisis, perhaps democracy has to become aware of the contradiction in which it works, so it can emancipate from its own history and from a notion of sovereign power that cannot do without the “enclosed space” in which it is located.

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