Metaphysics and Politics

This research proposes to reconstruct Carl Schmitt''s theses about the modern distinction between faticity and validity in political theory. The objectives of this study are: (i) to analyze the modern political paradigms - normativism and realism - as a consequence of the problem of the relation between immediacy and mediateness of political form and (ii) to elaborate a reading of the Schmittian work under the Leitmotiv that the author inaugurates a new conceptual framework that does not operate with the codes of either normativist or realist theories. In this context the thesis of this research is to develop what this political paradigm that Schmitt had only sketched in his work consists of.