Pour qu'un vaniteux desire un objet il suffit de le convaincre que cet objet est deja desire par un tiers aquel s'attache un certain prestige. La mediateur est ici un rival que la vanite a d'abord suscite qu'elle a pour ainsi dire, appele a son existence de rival avant d'en exiger la defaite. p.20-21
In truth history does not belong to us, we belong to it.
Truth is not merchandise -- Title of chapter 13
A right of sovereignty and a mechanics of discipline. It is, I think, between these two limits that power is exercised. The two limits are, however, of such a kind and so heterogeneous that we can never reduce one to the other. In modern societies, power is exercised through, on the basis of, and in the very play of the heterogeneity between a public right of sovereignty and a polymorphous mechanics of discipline.
The earth is bound to the law in three ways; she contains law within herself, as a reward of labor; she manifests law upon herself in fixed boundaries; and she sustains law above herself, as a public sign of order.
Schmitt, Carl. The Concept of the Political. United Kingdom: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Schmitt, Carl. Political Romanticism. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2017.
Schmitt, Carl. The crisis of parliamentary democracy. Mit Press, 1988
Schmitt, Carl. The crisis of parliamentary democracy. Mit Press, 1988
No definite or convincing answer can be given to the question" 'What is going to happen?" Man, living man, will answer this question through his own being, in the course of his own activities. A forecast of the future (the 'active forecast' now in the making, the forecast which will become one of the determinants of the future) can aim only at rendering mankind aware of itself. p. 228