The German jurist Carl Schmitt, who is sulphurous in more than one way, defined the notion of politics by giving a central place to the enemy, which he said would be "our own question as a figure". The political community would only determine itself as such by designating the hostile by means of a state decision, i.e. by deciding to go to war. Only the State would, moreover, be able to guarantee internal peace and the plurality of sovereign States would ensure the peaceful balance of the European continent. The genesis of politics and the conditions for its maintenance can be explained through a series of fundamental notions (the friend, the enemy, the plurality of States), always involving the State apparatus as the holder of sovereignty, and thus the rejection of a constitutive concept of humanity.
Tristan Storme is a lecturer in political science at the University of Nantes and a member of the Law & Social Change Research Laboratory. His research and teaching concern in particular the thinking of Carl Schmitt, a German lawyer and philosopher on whom he published: Carl Schmitt and Marcionnism (Cerf, 2008); Carl Schmitt, a reader from Tocqueville. Democracy in question (in the European Social Science Journal, 2011).
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