Political Theology — Carl Schmitt
Definition of Sovereignty
Sovereign is he who decides on the state of exception.
This definition alone can do justice to the concept of sovereignty as a border concept. For border concept does not mean a confused concept, as in the unclean terminology of popular literature, but a concept of the utmost sphere. It corresponds to the …
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