Theory of the Partisan: Intermediate Commentary on the Concept of the Political
"Despite certain signs of ironic distrust in the areas of  metaphysics and ontology,The Concept of the Politicalwas, as we  have seen, a philosophical type of essay to 'frame' the topic of a concept  unable to constitute itself on philosophical ground. But inTheory of  the Partisan, it is in the same areas that the topic of this concept is  both radicalized and properly uprooted, where Schmitt wished to regrasp in  history the event or node of events that engaged this uprooting  radicalization, and it is precisely there that the philosophical as such  intervenes again."Jacques Derrida, fromThe Politics of  Friendship"Carl Schmitt'sTheory of the Partisanis a must-read to understand our age of terrorism, in which adversaries are  degraded as criminal and subhuman. Schmitt traces the transformation of the  enemy concept that had governed limited warfare for the European sovereign  states into the dogma that defines the political foe as a target of  complete annihilation."George SchwabPresident,  National Committee on American Foreign PolicyProfessor emeritus, City  University of New York