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Freund-Feind-Denken: Carl Schmitts Kategorie des Politischen (Staatsdiskurse, 15)

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English All political concepts, ideas, and values have a definite dichotomy in mind. In his 1932 book Der Begriff des Politischen (The Concept of the Political), Carl Schmitt highlights the crucial importance of the political friend-enemy antithesis. This controversial connection is highly discussed both in national and in international science. Must the political be defined in isolation from the concept of the enemy, or can one - on the contrary - only understand the political in its antagonistic dimension? The authors discuss this problem within five thematic friend-enemy theory; Carl Schmitt's category of the political; Carl Schmitt's friend-enemy concept; friend-enemy thinking and internal unity; friend-enemy thinking in the international context. German text.


German Alle politischen Begriffe, Vorstellungen und Werte haben eine konkrete Gegensätzlichkeit im Auge. In seiner Schrift Der Begriff des Politischen von 1932 hat Carl Schmitt die entscheidende Bedeutung des Freund-Feind-Gegensatzes fuer das Politische hervorgehoben. Diese Verbindung wird sowohl in der nationalen wie in der internationalen Wissenschaft kontrovers diskutiert. Muss das Politische losgelöst vom Feindbegriff definiert werden, oder kann man - im Gegenteil - das Politische nur in seiner antagonistischen Dimension begreifen? Dieser Problematik gehen die Autoren in fuenf Themenfeldern Freund-Feind-Theorie - Carl Schmitts Kategorie des Politischen - Carl Schmitts Freund-Feind-Konzept - Freund-Feind-Denken und innere Einheit - Freund-Feind-Denken im internationalen Kontext.

231 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 2011

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Rüdiger Voigt (1941-) is a German political scientist. He is the author and publisher of the political science publication series “Staatsverständnisse” and “Staatsdiskurse”.

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