How Did Carl Schmitt Come to Develop His Notion of the Political? Cover Image

Kako je Carl Schmitt došao do svog pojma političkog?
How Did Carl Schmitt Come to Develop His Notion of the Political?

Author(s): Ernst Vollrath
Subject(s): Politics, Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Political Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: Carl Schmitt; Political;

Summary/Abstract: Schmitt's notion of the political is a response to the crisis of the German theory of state law. This is also the source of all his attributes: hostile orientation, will, political monopoly, intensity. Political is the one who acts the way the state can act. The state acts from the position of power and its activity is normatively legitimate. It is the only essential and normal form of the world of politics. Every state is a total state. Carl Schmitt's constant antiliberalism springs from such a determination of state -by itself«.

  • Issue Year: XXVI/1989
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 30-47
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Croatian