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Carl Schmitt's friend/enemy principle is exposed to in-depth philosophical analysis and historical examination with the aim of showing that the political follows hostility, violence and terror as form follows matter. The book argues that the partisan is an umbrella concept that includes the national and global terrorist.
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"Slomp offers a provocative analysis of Carl Schmitt's understanding of hostility and the partisan useful for those who are just now encountering his thought and those long acquainted with it... In thinking through Schmitt's account of hostility, Slomp provides a useful category for thinking about contemporary terrorism." - CHOICE
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GABRIELLA SLOMP is Senior Lecturer in International Political Thought at the University of St Andrews, UK. After attaining her PhD at the LSE, she worked at the Universities of Swansea and Strathclyde. She is the author of Thomas Hobbes and the Political Philosophy of Glory, editor of Thomas Hobbes and has published numerous articles in the history of political thought.
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Book Title: Carl Schmitt and the Politics of Hostility, Violence and Terror
Authors: Gabriella Slomp
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234673
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-00251-7Published: 14 May 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-23467-3Published: 14 May 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 182
Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Political Science, Terrorism and Political Violence