Janus's Gaze: Essays on Carl Schmitt
Carlo Galli is Professor of History of Political Theory at the University of Bologna and the author of many books, including Political Spaces and Global War.
Adam Sitze is Associate Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College and the coeditor of Biopolitics: A Reader, also published by Duke University Press.
Amanda Minervini is Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Colorado College and translator of Nymphs by Giorgio Agamben.
Carlo Galli is Professor of History of Political Theory at the University of Bologna and the author of many books, including Political Spaces and Global War.
Adam Sitze is Associate Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College and the coeditor of Biopolitics: A Reader, also published by Duke University Press.
Amanda Minervini is Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Colorado College and translator of Nymphs by Giorgio Agamben.
Schmitt and the Global Era
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Published:November 2015
Focusing on Schmitt’s writings on international law, chapter 5 poses the question of whether Schmitt’s analyses of the partisan and of the Cold War are sufficient for grasping the dynamics of an emergent “global age” constituted primarily by “terrorism” and its suppression. After a detailed reconstruction of Schmitt’s work on international law, and an outline of the contemporary phenomenon that Galli calls “global war,” Galli answers this question in the negative: the global age is that epoch in which Schmitt’s concepts have lost their grasp on the crises in relation to which they emerged and in the absence of which they lack substance and intelligibility. The global age is, in short, that epoch defined by the complete and irreversible “inactuality” of Schmittian thought.
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