Carl Schmitt and the Politics of Hostility, Violence and Terror

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.

Author: G. Slomp
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 06/01/2009
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780230002517

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 07/24/2009 pg. 17
Choice 03/01/2010

About the Author
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.