Behemot i Lewiatan w oceanie polityczności. Carl Schmitt: przestrzeń, prawo, polityka. Część I
Behemoth and Leviathan in the ocean of the political. Carl Schmitt: space, law, politics. Part 1

Summary/Abstract: The Author analyses Carl Schmitt’s concept of the opposition between land and sea as a universalhistorical construct. According to the author of Nomos der Erde world history is the history ofwars waged by maritime powers against land or continental powers and by land powers againstsea or maritime powers. He uses biblical symbols to denote this historical conflict: a land power issymbolically represented as a giant land beast Behemoth, while a maritime power is portrayed asa giant sea beast Leviathan. The Author argues that the Age of Discovery marked the beginning ofa new era of war between talassocracy and telurocracy. According to Schmitt, this spatial revolutionconstituted a part of the fundamental forces of history, which bring new lands and new seasinto human awareness. The process of the colonization of the New World by Europeans includeda struggle between terrestrial Catholicism and maritime Protestantism, between the sovereign stateand the liberal state as well as two kinds of international law.

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