Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations: The Works of Carl Schmitt; Introduction: On the Possibility of a Non-Objectivist Political Ontology; PART I: THE ELEMENTS; Chapter 1 Geometry of the Exception: The Point and the Line; Chapter 2 The Danger: Unavoidability of Risk; Chapter 3 The Non-Ground: From the Concept of the Political to the Event of Politics; Chapter 4 Politics in Question; PART II: THE CRITIQUE; Chapter 5 Metonymic Abuses of Modernity; Chapter 6 Political Reduction to Constitutive Subjectivity; PART III: ON THE GROUND.
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An examination of the implicit phenomenological and existential foundations of Schmitt's political philosophy. It claims that Schmitt decisively breaks with the metaphysical tradition and predicates the political on the 'groundless' categories of existence, including risk, decision, and agonism.
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Schmitt, Carl,1888-1985-- Criticism and interpretation.