The Political Imaginary after Neo- Liberalism: Populism and the Return of ‘Elemental Politics’
In this paper, I claim that Carl Schmitt's enigmatic work Land and Sea provides contemporary philosophers and social theorists with important insights into what appears to be an emergent, post-neo-liberal, political imaginary. With theologico-political imaginary grounded in a conception of poli...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Mimesis Edizioni, Milano
2020-02-01
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| Series: | Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary |
| Online Access: | http://cab.unime.it/journals/index.php/IMAGO/article/view/2393 |
| Summary: | In this paper, I claim that Carl Schmitt's enigmatic work Land and Sea provides contemporary philosophers and social theorists with important insights into what appears to be an emergent, post-neo-liberal, political imaginary. With theologico-political imaginary grounded in a conception of politics framed around elemental forces, Schmitt allows us to see that the slow retreat of neo- liberalism portends a return to early modern political imaginaries. In so-called ‘populist’ age, when the nation and nationalism seem to be returning to the political arean in transformed ways, Schmitt allows us to see that the geo- political imaginary of the land and the sea are again involved in this transition. I conclude with an examination of the challenges that any such elemental, ‘pre- Socratic’, political imaginary are likely to pose for extant democratic norms and values. |
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| ISSN: | 2281-8138 2281-8138 |