Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pan, David

Titel

Political Theology for Democracy: Carl Schmitt and John Dewey on Aesthetics and Politics

Ist Teil von

• Telos (New York, N.Y.), 2012-12, Vol.2012 (161), p.120-140

Ort / Verlag

New York: Telos Press, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Here, Pan's illuminates the nature of sovereignty in Carl Schmitt. The decision precedes metaphysical justifications and is not as a command but as an instantiation of the popular will that always sanctions it, if only indirectly. Subsequently, he turns to the aesthetic theory of John Dewey, so as to fill in the gaps of Schmitt's idea of the implicit representational character of sovereignty. The interpretation of an artwork as a nexus between the individual and the collective parallels the notion of the decision as a bridge between the deciding agent and the popular will that lends it legitimacy. Adapted from the source document.