Il luogo della politica: amico-nemico tra Arendt e Schmitt

CONTRIBUTI / 8 / di Stefano Berni, Verbena Giambastiani

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This article interrogates Hannah Arendt and Carl Schmitt’s different notions of friendship. Arendt defines citizenship in terms of a horizontal commitment to friends. Friendship has political weight because it is only through friendship that the world is turned into a political one. At the heart of Schmitt’s thought lies the strong connection between the friend-enemy distinction and sovereignty. For Schmitt each element of this relationship is internally related to the other. Politics exists as a direct consequence of the friend-enemy relationship. He insists that this distinction cannot be reduced to an economic, aesthetic, moral, or any other particular ‘antithesis’. It is original and pre-political. The two philosophers mentioned above are increasingly convicted that politics is at risk from the improvements of consumerism, liberalism, and a mass culture of immediate gratification. The power of friendship seems to reestablish a sense of politics in society. 

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