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Carl Schmitt's "Cosmopolitan Restaurant": Culture, Multiculturalism, and Complexio Oppositorum

Disentangling Complexio Oppositorum

Carl Schmitt's Roman Catholicism and Political Form (1923) features a term, the importance of which political philosophy has yet to fathom. This notion is complexio oppositorum, describing Catholicism as "a complex of opposites": "There appears to be no antithesis it [Roman Catholicism] does not embrace. It has long and proudly claimed to have united within itself all forms of state and government....But this complexio oppositorum also holds sway over everything theological."¹ The striking depth and breadth of the complex are already evident in this brief passage. Broadly speaking, its elastic form—and more needs to be said on...