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Carl Schmitt and the Risk of the Political

The trope of risk holds enormous potential for the development of the social sciences, the humanities, and, especially, the emergent supra-disciplinary field in-between.² Without claiming to compile a representative sample, it is enough to cast a glance at a few of the disciplines to detect the unifying, but still invisible thread it supplies. From the work of Ulrich Beck in sociology, to Susan Strange's ground-breaking book in heterodox economics, to "the fourth dimension" of the "desire of philosophy" formalized by Alain Badiou, "risk" comes to the forefront of research and of human life in late modernity.³ Yet, despite the forays...