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Philosophies of "Concrete" Life: From Carl Schmitt to Jean-Luc Nancy

Introduction

In the numerous commentaries on Carl Schmitt published during the last ten years by English speaking authors there is no discussion about Schmitt's concept of the "concrete."¹ This is strange given Schmitt's continuous emphasis on the concreteness of his approach. Already in Political Theology (1922) he defines his approach as a "philosophy of concrete life." In addition, although Schmitt's thought is usually divided into two phases, the decisionist phase and the phase which begins approximately in 1933, the late phase too is characterized by an attempt to think "concrete concretely," as evident even in the name he gives to...