Presentazione - La concretezza dell’ordine. La svolta istituzionalista di Carl Schmitt

The fatal link between risk and exception, which today comes back to the fore on account of the various crises that emerge in every sphere of social life, effectively and obstinately reinstates a common reading of Carl Schmitt. He is claimed to be the theorist of a political power that feeds off the uncertainty typical of extreme conditions. Schmitt is interpreted in two ways. On the one hand, he is the one who praises the “state of exception” – a hazardous and radical political technique for the unfounded foundation of the community. On the other hand, he is the champion of a theory that allows justifying the break of normality in the name of a relieving “supreme emergency”: