The Challenge of Carl SchmittPHRONESIS A series from Verso edited by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe ‘There is today wide agreement that the left-wing project isin crisis. New antagonisms have emerged = not only in advanced capitalist societies in the Eastern bloc and in the Third We require the reformulation of the soci terms of an extension and deepening of However, serious disagreements ‘theoretical strategy needed to carry ‘There are those for whom the current critique of rationalism and universalism puts into jeopardy the very basis of the democr temporary theory: post-structus of language after the lat Heideggerian hermeneuti dition for understanding the of social struggles characteristic of the present cof democratic polities. Phronesis clearly los among the latter. Our objective is to establish a dialogue between these theoretical developments ve that an anti- is the sine qua non of conceived in terms of a The Challenge of Carl Schmitt —_@—— Edited by CHANTAL MOUFFE VER:ublished by Verso 1999 reserved and translators have been asserted ISBN 1-85964-248-5 pbk ish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data 3 for this books available from the British Library Congress Typeset by SetSystems Printed by Biddles Lt, Walden, Bssex id King’s Lynn [Seer oni 88! Contents Acknowledgements jon: Schmitt’s Challenge Mouffe Slneoj Zizek t and the Paradox of Liberal Democracy fe 4. Carl Schmitt and ‘World Unity’ fea K 5. Putting the State Back in Credit id Dy’ 6 From Karl to Carl: Schn Jorge E. Di Carl Sct 3. Carl Sel as a Reader of Marx and Max Adler: The Inreconci lity of Py and Democracy Grigoris Ananindis Max Weber: Juridical Rationality and 18 18. 138 155