Heidegger's claim "Carl Schmitt thinks as a Liberal"

This paper examines Heidegger's critique of Carl Schmitt during the Nazi period, focusing on Heidegger's notes for seminars on Hegel's Philosophy of Right. Taking up Heidegger's and Schmitt's critique of Hegel, Heidegger argues that the friend/enemy distinction Schmitt makes...

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Published inJournal for cultural research Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 286 - 294
Main Author Hemming, Laurence Paul
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 02.07.2016
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Hegel
Heidegger
liberalism
philosophy of right
political theology
Schmitt
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Summary:This paper examines Heidegger's critique of Carl Schmitt during the Nazi period, focusing on Heidegger's notes for seminars on Hegel's Philosophy of Right. Taking up Heidegger's and Schmitt's critique of Hegel, Heidegger argues that the friend/enemy distinction Schmitt makes is still grounded in a humanistic liberalism, and so in the very Hegelian subjectivity that Schmitt claims to reject. Heidegger then turns to the question of dikē, and shows how there is a more originary grounding for the polis and the state in a concept Heidegger develops from his analysis of Anaximander. Grounding this is the question which concerns which God (or which goddess) grounds any past, present, or future "political theology".
ISSN:1479-7585
1740-1666
DOI:10.1080/14797585.2016.1141834