Philosophy of Concrete Life Carl Schmitt And the Political Thought of Late Modernity

Carl Schmitt's work - consisting of polemical moves in immediate intellectual and political contexts - is not usually thought of as forming a recognizable system. A Philosophy of Concrete Life challenges this interpretation. In this book, the author demonstrates that there is indeed a common metaphysical core passing through Schmitt's work as a whole. On account of this metaphysical core, the author calls Schmitt's thought a philosophy of the extreme, thus emphasizing its embeddedness in the late modern tradition of philosophical extremism from Kierkegaard to Foucault. Despite this strictly philosophical objective, however, the book is also a lucid presentation of all of Schmitt's central ideas and concepts from the 1920's to the 1960's, offering a comprehensible introduction to the work of this controversial political thinker.Ojakangas, Mika is the author of 'Philosophy of Concrete Life Carl Schmitt And the Political Thought of Late Modernity', published 2006 under ISBN 9780820483627 and ISBN 0820483621.