Spatial contestation? – The theological foundations of Carl Schmitt’s spatial thought |
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| Authors: | Robert Meyer Conrad Schetter Janosch Prinz |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute for Political Science and Sociology, University of Bonn, Lennéstraße 25, D-53113 Bonn, Germany;2. Center for Development Research (ZEF), Department for Political and Cultural Change, University of Bonn, Walter-Flex-Straße 3, D-53113 Bonn, Germany;3. Center for Development Research (ZEF), Department for Political and Cultural Change, University of Bonn, Germany;1. Institute of Physics, Jilin Normal University, Siping 136000, China;2. Institute of Physics, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei 235000, China;3. Institute of Physics, Xuzhou Normal University, Xuzhou 221000, China;1. Kansas State University, Department of Geography, Manhattan, KS, United States;2. Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, College Station, TX, United States;1. Sustainability Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, 4558, Australia;2. Department of Environment and Geography, Macquarie University, Sydney 2109, Australia;3. Geography & Spatial Studies, School of Land & Food, University of Tasmania, Hobart 7005, Australia;4. Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States;5. Urban Research Program, Griffith University, Brisbane 4111, Australia;1. Department of Architecture, Planning and Development, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium;2. COSMOPOLIS Centre for Urban Research, Department of Geography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium |
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| Abstract: | Carl Schmitt’s work on the political is extensively used as an intellectual point of departure in contemporary academic debates about political contestation. More precisely, Carl Schmitt’s friend versus enemy-distinction is invoked as an essential figuration of political contestation. At the same time, the past few years have seen the attention paid to the spatial thought of Carl Schmitt increase. However, references to the work of Carl Schmitt fail to take the embeddedness of his theories in a complex theological–political–spatial triangle into account. This article aims at joining these readings of Schmitt with regard to the current debate about contestation and space by analyzing the idiosyncratic connection between Carl Schmitt’s Catholic faith, especially in the figure of the katechon, his theory of the political and his conceptualization(s) of space. The underlying logic of his worldview becomes explicit by reviewing his concepts of (a) the nomos, (b) land and sea, (c) the Großraumordnung, as well as (d) the Partisan, which form the benchmarks of his work between the 1930s and the 1960s. Against this background we analyze the value of Schmitt’s work for the ongoing debate about contestation and space. Our core argument is that his understanding of the spatial–political nexus and his metaphysical worldview stand in contrast to contemporary conceptualizations of spatial–political relationships. |
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