Ellenségkonstruálás. Carl Schmitt és Reinhart Koselleck
The Enemy-Construction. Carl Schmitt and Reinhart Koselleck

Summary/Abstract: In the first part of our paper we are trying to reconstruct the relationship between Schmitt and Koselleck based on their correspondence (1953–1980), emphasising the intensive correspondence around Koselleck’s dissertation and the actual personal meetings (1953–1959). The second part of our paper, analysing the criterion of Schmitt’s concept of the political – distinction between friend and enemy –, compares it with two papers of Koselleck (Koselleck: 1979, 1993.) in which Koselleck analyses the semantics of the political anti-concepts and the concepts of enemies in the context of the perspective of the construction of the enemy. We think that Schmitt’s impact on Koselleck can be demonstrated at this point as well, though it is less intensive and re-thought / thought further.

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