... theory,” a set of governing axioms about life in outer space that make a necessary, inescapable hostility between different forms of organized life the fundamental political fact of the cosmos. This article argues that Carl Schmitt's political theory—his critique of liberalism, his investment...

... articulated coincident with the European exploration of what the early moderns called the terraqueous globe, starting at the turn of the sixteenth century. In The Nomos of the Earth, Carl Schmitt details how European nations’ competition and conflict for the vast wealth and power of the newly...

...David Babcock de Boever Arne , States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel: Martel, Eugenides, Coetzee, Sebald . ( New York : Continuum , 2012 ), pp. 176 , cloth, $100.00 . © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press Works Cited Schmitt Carl . Political...

... literature. He begins his account of sovereignty by recalibrating some of the basic metrics of analysis that have come to dominate transatlan- tic criticism. In a tradition of political discourse on sovereignty that derives from Grotius, extends through Hobbes, and culminates in Carl Schmitt...

... . Savile George . “The Character of a Trimmer.” The Complete Works of George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax . Ed. Raleigh Walter . Oxford : Clarendon , 1912 . 47 – 103 . Schmitt Carl . The Concept of the Political . Trans. Schwab George . New Jersey : Rutgers UP , 1976...

... : Stanford UP , 1998 . Schmitt Carl . Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty . Trans. Schwab G. . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1985 . Simmel Georg . “The Stranger.” The Sociology of Georg Simmel . Trans. Woolf Kurt H. . New York : Free Press...

... to Tecumseh . Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2005 . Sayre , Gordon M. “The Mound Builders and the Imagination of American Antiquity in Jefferson, Bartram, and Chateaubriand.” Early American Literature 33:3 ( 1998 ): 225 –49. Schmitt , Carl . The Nomos of the Earth...

... Sontag, Susan Schlegel, Friedrich On Photography, II: 393 “Letter on the Novel,” I: 190 Spacks, Patricia Meyer, I: 268 Schmitt, Carl speculation, III: 157 The Nomos of the Earth, I: 290 Spence, Jon...

...’’ opposedto the older model of sovereign power over subjects—andto Carl Schmitt’s notion of ‘‘sovereign power [as] the power that decides on the state of exception in which normal legality is suspended’’ (300). Rancie`re contends that by taking a different tack from Foucault in viewing biopower...

..., Aris- totle, and Pindar sit alongside Walter Benjamin, Carl Schmitt, and Leo Strauss, and all can be adduced as explicators of a single onto-political problem operative in the ancient world no less than in the present day. Agamben’s texts, that is, draw on particular historical occasions...