The ethos of insecure life: Reading Carl Schmitt's existential decisionism as a Foucauldian ethics

The International Political Thought of Carl Schmitt: Terror, Liberal War and the Crisis of Global Order

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 222-241

  Prozorov, Sergei ^a  

^a PETROZAVODSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203964149     Document Type: Chapter

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