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Carl Schmitt’s definition of sovereignty as authorized leadership

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Author

Editor

  • Matilda Arvidsson
  • Leila Brännström
  • Panu Minkinnen

Summary, in English

Reading Political Theology in light of the later developed concrete-order thinking, this essay draws attention to the understanding of law, which allows Schmitt to present the sovereign as simultaneously standing inside and outside the legal order. In addition, the particular way of ordering the political community, which Schmitt’s notion of sovereignty advances, is also explored. The essay suggests that the truly problematic feature of Schmitt’s notion of sovereignty, is not its purported a-, extra-, or illegality, but the hierarchical structure of authority presupposed by it, the function of which is to control who can speak in the name of the people and negotiate the character of the socio-legal order.

Department/s

Publishing year

2016

Language

English

Pages

19-33

Publication/Series

The contemporary relevance of Carl Schmitt: law, politics, theology

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • Law
  • Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

Keywords

  • concrete-order thought
  • the exception
  • decisionism
  • Carl Schmitt
  • sovereignty
  • conceptions of law
  • allmän rättslära
  • jurisprudence

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9781138822931