Order Crisis and Redemption

<p><b>A critical reflection on the limitations of Carl Schmitt's political theology reconsidered in light of the current crisis of the liberal democratic order.</b></p><p>Recent events such as the COVID-19 pandemic the invasion of Ukraine the rise of right-wing populism the growing economic inequality and political instability and the climate emergency are indicative of the decomposition of the global liberal democratic order. <i>Order Crisis and Redemption</i> is a critical reflection on the limitations of Carl Schmitt's political theology an attempt to think <i>with</i> and <i>beyond</i> Schmitt about the parameters of this crisis. Through a sustained critical engagement ranging over Schmittian texts including the lesser known from the 1920s to the 1970s the book elaborates three main themes that preoccupied Schmitt: <i>order</i> <i>crisis</i> and <i>redemption</i>. In times of crisis as with the one we are currently experiencing we are faced with the dilemma of either shoring up the current political and legal order-through ever more authoritarian measures-or radically transforming it. Redemption in the full theological sense of the word thus implies the possibility of a new understanding of ethics and politics aimed at creating a more just world.</p>