Heidegger's claim "Carl Schmitt thinks as a Liberal". Issue 3 (2nd July 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hemming, Laurence Paul
• Is Part Of: Journal for cultural research. Volume 20:Issue 3(2016)
• Page Start: 286
• Page End: 294
• Publication Date: 2016-07-02
• Subjects: Schmitt -- Heidegger -- liberalism -- Hegel -- philosophy of right -- political theology; Ethics -- Periodicals; Values -- Periodicals; Culture -- Periodicals; Intellectual life -- Periodicals; 306
• DOI: 10.1080/14797585.2016.1141834
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1479-7585

Abstract

Abstract : This paper examines Heidegger's critique of Carl Schmitt during the Nazi period, focusing on Heidegger's notes for seminars on Hegel's Philosophy of Right . Taking up Heidegger's and Schmitt's critique of Hegel, Heidegger argues that the friend/enemy distinction Schmitt makes is still grounded in a humanistic liberalism, and so in the very Hegelian subjectivity that Schmitt claims to reject. Heidegger then turns to the question of dikē, and shows how there is a more originary grounding for the polis and the state in a concept Heidegger develops from his analysis of Anaximander. Grounding this is the question which concerns which God (or which goddess) grounds any past, present, or future "political theology".