tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post5622431053329590953..comments2024-01-05T01:21:21.702-08:00Comments on <center>SPECULUM CRITICUM TRADITIONIS</center>: The partisan reviewskholiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05410057905377189336noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post-84236342655998511532010-04-20T03:10:13.947-07:002010-04-20T03:10:13.947-07:00Hello Bryan, thanks for the shout-out. Regarding &...Hello Bryan, thanks for the shout-out. Regarding 'the adequacy' of my review of Schmitt, just to be clear, I cut it off a little more than half-way through in order to end it in the pessimistic manner that I did. After Lenin, Schmitt turns to Mao, and finds hope (I mean allows himself to find hope) that Mao will be willing to allow the world to be partitioned between sovereign competing blocs. In this manner there would be, for Schmitt, Order; - because for Schmitt Order is (and can only be) a relation between Sovereign Parts (i.e., States or Empires). (For him, Universalism is Chaos.)<br /><br />Schmitt's essay ends, some thirty-forty pages after where I ended my review, with the words:<br /><br />"The theory of the partisan flows into the question of the concept of the political, into the question of the real enemy and of a new nomos of the earth."<br /><br />Schmitt wrote the whole essay in order to get to that sentence. The rise of the partisan was the end (for Schmitt) of coherent history. Schmitt was interested in how to get past all that. My review was not...<br /><br />In perhaps a more adequate fashion I will say that the development of the theory of the partisan leads to absolute enmity. But in the cold-war world Schmitt wrote in so too did weapons of mass destruction. Modern Technology and the Partisan were both dragging the world down into chaos. <br /><br />Thus there can no longer be, in principle, any limited wars. Limited wars still happen, of course, but only for merely pragmatic or tactical reasons. Partisanship goes from resistance to extermination while the logic of state war tends towards total war. - This is why Schmitt calls for a new Nomos of the Earth. ...There is no longer any true Order at all. <br /><br />Bryan, I think you are right; the new always rises out of terror and chaos. Schmitt, however, did not at all want the new. All he wanted was the old European Sovereign State/Empire system 'globalized'. (Although, obviously, he would never put it like that...)<br /><br />The Jurists search for Order is always for a pre-existent order. Only philosophy is competent to decide the question of the new.Joe Pomonomohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15799366948466532024noreply@blogger.com