Norm, Normality and Abnormality : A Study On the Concept of Dictatorship and Sovereignty In Legal and Political Philosophy of Carl Schmitt

Abstract

In this lecture, I investigate the relation between the state of exception, normality and law in the legal and political philosophy of Carl Schmitt. I analyse the interconnections between sovereignty, decision, political unity, constitution and law in general and try show in which regard does Schmitt understand normality as a horizon of abnormality.

In this context, I pay special attention to the difference between commissarial and sovereign dictatorship.

Keywords

• State of exception
• dictatorship
• sovereignty
• Carl Schmitt