Carl Schmitt and the Anticrist’s policy Räepresentation, Political Form and Nihilism

Abstract

This essay sets out that the Carl Schmitt’s “concept of the political” has a katechontic character and, consequently, constitutes a “the Antichrist’s policy”. The essay differentiates three moments in Schmitt’s thought. The first one describes “the dictatorship”, in which Schmitt states and forms the difference between constituent power and constituted power. The second moment is expressed in two works: “Political Theology” and “Roman Catholicism and Political Form”. “Political Theology” is dedicated to define the concept of sovereignty; “Roman Catholicism and Political Form” are associated with the sovereignty of the catholic principle of representation. The third moment, which emerges in the 50’s, consists in the problem of “the Nomos of the earth”. In this last moment, Schmitt developed a radical proposal about the crisis of the katechontic character in the political: the Nihilism. For Schmitt the postpolitical situation is a crisis of the catholic principle representation.