Table 1
Schmitt’s scheme of oppositions that summarize a large part of his idea of ‘antagonism’.
| Diskussion – Diktatur Ratio – Voluntas Abstrakt/Allgemein – Konkret Gesetz – Befehl Entwicklung – Entschädigung Harmonisierung ~ Tragik … ? [English Translation] Discussion – Dictatorship Ratio – Voluntas Abstract/General – Concrete Law –- Command Development – Compensation Harmonization ~ Tragedy … ? |
[i] Source: (Schmitt 1921?). Reproduced with the permission of the Carl-Schmitt-Gesellschaft.
Table 2
Schmitt’s draft notes on Donoso Cortés.
| DC [Donoso Cortés] Obras IV, p. 155 (Ensayo) ‘La sociedad entonces se deja gobernar de buen grado por una escuela [el liberalismo] que nunca dice afirmo ni niego, y que a todo dice distingo. El supremo interés de esa escuela está en que no llegue el día de las negaciones radicales o de las afirmaciones soberanas’; (…) (Donoso Cortés 1854, 3:154–155). [Comentario de Schmitt]: maravilloso, misterioso, tremendo, radical, soberano, supremo, terrible, profundísimo, absoluto, perentorio, decisivo … sangre, misterio, pecado, batalla, contienda … Negación-afirmación. [English translation] ‘Society then willingly allows itself to be governed by a school [liberalism] that never says I affirm or deny, and that says I distinguish to everything. The supreme interest of this school is to ensure that the day of radical negations or sovereign affirmations does not arrive’ (Donoso Cortés 1854, 3:154–155). [Schmitt’s comment]: marvelous, mysterious, tremendous, radical, sovereign, supreme, terrible, most profound, absolute, peremptory, decisive … blood, mystery, sin, battle, strife … Negation-affirmation. |
| DC [Donoso Cortés] Prodigioso, sublime, maravilloso, inmenso, infernal, terrible, pavoroso, furioso, cataclismo, el diluvio democrático, (…), lo imprevisto, (…) terror, los secretos (…) tiniebla, diluvio, terribles incendios, crisis. [English translation] Prodigious, sublime, marvelous, immense, infernal, terrible, dreadful, furious, cataclysm, the democratic deluge, (…), the unforeseen, (…) terror, secrets (…) darkness, deluge, terrible fires, crisis. |
[i] Source: (Schmitt 1921). Reproduced with the permission of the Carl-Schmitt-Gesellschaft.