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Zusatztext Marder's book is a significant contribution to understanding Schmitt's philosophical underpinnings and political ontology. It facilitates a fresh and innovative conversation about possible politico-philosophical links between Schmitt, phenomenology, existentialism, and deconstructivism. Informationen zum Autor Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz. He is the Associate Editor of Telos: A Quarterly Journal of Critical Thought and the author of The Event of The Thing: Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism (2009). Klappentext Groundless existence is a unique examination of the implicit phenomenological and existential foundations of Schmitt's political philosophy. Vorwort Groundless existence is a unique examination of the implicitphenomenological and existential foundations of Schmitt's political philosophy. Zusammenfassung Groundless Existence discusses the implicit phenomenological and existential foundations of Schmitt's political philosophy. The book's unique contribution lies in its claim that Schmitt decisively breaks with the metaphysical tradition and predicates the political on the 'groundless' categories of existence, including risk, decision, and agonism. This argument is substantiated by both tacit and explicit existentialist and phenomenological underpinnings of Schmitt's work, discussed here for the first time in book form. The book provides an insight into the implications of Schmitt's thought reconceptualized in the light of contemporary political developments. An essential text for anyone interested in the political theory of Carl Schmitt, it offers a new reading of Schmitt's work against the double background of phenomenology and existentialism. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Abbreviations: The Works of Carl Schmitt Introduction: On the Possibility of a Non-Objectivist Political Ontology Part I - The Elements Chapter 1 - Geometry of the Exception: The Point and The Line To the Point Beyond the Line The Extremism of the Middle Point Chapter 2 - The Danger: Unavoidability of Risk A Taxonomy of Risk Whence Political Risk? The Anthropological Minus the Economic Risky Recognitions Risky Decisions Chapter 3 - The Non-Ground: From the Concept of the Political to the Event of Politics A Philosophical Primer: Snapshots of the Event in Heidegger and Derrida There is no Such a Thing as the "Political Sphere"! Schmitt's Anti-Economism Revisited: Nomos / Appropriation, Politics / Expropriation How to Remain Faithful to the Event of Politics? Chapter 4 - Politics in Question Prelude: Questioning the Question Posing the Question Interlude: Yes or No? In Place of a Response... Part II - The Critique Chapter 5 - Metonymic Abuses of Modernity In the Name of the Law... Constitutional Unity, Constitutional Details The Fragility of the Status and the Irreducibility of the Political Chapter 6 - Political Reduction to Constitutive Subjectivity Schmitt and Husserl: From the Crisis The Ontology of Political Will P...
