Political Concept

The Concept of the Political, a classic dated 1932, has an important place among the works of the German thinker and jurist Carl Schmitt: It is the work in which he established the main criterion of the concept of the political, that is, the distinction between friend and enemy. The underlying interest of the book is to reveal ways to get the state out of the crisis it is in. Although he insistently emphasized the separation of politics and state, Schmitt essentially discussed why the state should be different from and above society.


Schmitt finds himself a place in the political science literature of the last twenty to twenty-five years, a subject of constant debate. While presenting the book, Aykut Çelebi says: "Schmitt is the family ghost hidden in the cellar of the liberal depoliticization era. Today, this ghost has escaped from where it was kept and, like everything that has been repressed, appears with great violence, micro fascisms and all kinds of exclusionary particularisms. Another Schmittian category in the new era." On the other hand, the Left's long-standing interest in Schmitt has become more intense, but it has become more distant and critical in a wide range of areas. "Instead of coming to terms with the debates or pushing them out of the way, it is trying to create a political concept that takes it as its axis and aims to transcend it."


Indeed, the readers of the book will see clear reflections and traces from Schmitt in today's worldwide political developments - a book that all our readers who are interested in Politics should put in front of them and think about.



Number of Pages: 168

Year of Printing: 2014


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Metis Publishing

First Printing Year: 2009

Number of Pages: 168

Language Turkish