Carl Schmitt Versus the ‘Intermediate State’
International and Domestic Variants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11348235 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timo Pankakoski (0000-0002-4076-9717, University of Helsinki, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 241-266 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of European Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0191-6599 • E-ISSN: 1873-541X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01916599.2011.652467 |
| OpenAlex | W2045618771 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Carl Schmitt emphatically rejected intermediate formations between peace and war. Analysing Schmitt's oscillation between the domestic and the international, the article suggests that the notion of ‘intermediate state’ provides a vital route to the core of Schmitt's political theory. The concept emerges in Schmitt's analysis of the Rhineland crisis, recurs in his vehement critique of Weimar pluralism, and, finally, reappears in his theory of modern war from the Third Reich to the Cold War. ‘Intermediate state’ has both qualitative and temporal aspects; it connotes not only categorical confusion and impurity but also instability and limited duration. Despite his criticism, Schmitt himself utilised the ambiguity, polysemy, and normative ambivalence of the intermediate state in his argumentation, finally giving it an open theological reinterpretation in his later work. Schmitt's theory of political conflict, consequently, is problematically bound to the vague intermediate state of perpetual conflict that he sought to avoid, and to the metaphorical aspects of the notion of battle that he explicitly rejected
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Epistemology · Pluralism (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Rebuttal · Reinterpretation · State (computer science · State of exception · Law · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · War, Ethics, and Justification
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2021 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |