By Rodney Barker (auth.)
ISBN-10: 0230287530
ISBN-13: 9780230287532
ISBN-10: 1349354643
ISBN-13: 9781349354641
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This will not involve shifting his meaning, though it may avoid some of the misunderstandings that have from time to time attended discussion of his work. The rationale of what Schmitt terms political life is the defence of its existence against enemies. The claims that can be made by a governed community in conflict with its enemy are absolute, and, particularly and for Schmitt definingly, include the power and authority to require its members to kill and be killed in conflict with an enemy. Any association of people that claims such authority over those whom it claims as its members, in conflict with another association that it defines as an enemy, has become ‘political’ in Schmitt’s sense.
But my intention in drawing on their work is not to recover what they may or may not have been doing, but to use their work for my own purposes. Their work serves as a resource and a catalyst, not as an authority. Enmity as desirable To those who see enmity as desirable, conflicts within societies and threats from outside them serve to stimulate and sustain social life and human creativity. This is the view expressed by Harry Lime in the film The Third Man, when he observes that ‘In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed – but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance.
4 But antagonism that is constrained and which, however vigorously or violently expressed, is not associated with or accompanied by physical conflict or an attempt to defeat the rival person or group in war, coup, or insurrection, all of which are features of enmity, still falls within the bounds of non-violent opposition and of what the term ‘politics’ most commonly describes. The employment of violent rhetoric does not in such a case function for the encouragement, explanation, or justification of other forms of violence.
Making Enemies by Rodney Barker (auth.)
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