Una lettera di Carl Schmitt a Walter Benjamin
Abstract
Jacques Derrida speaks of a letter from Carl Schmitt to Walter Benjamin
which does not actually exist. It is a “Purloined Letter” in which
the main defendant is History. From this theft - real or fictitious - a
plot unfolds that sheds light on some aspects of the relationship between
Schmitt and Benjamin and on the cross-reading of an outsider
like Georges Sorel. At stake is the clash between anarchy and statism
under the incipient «Um dieser Tiere, reiner und unreiner, willen!».
which does not actually exist. It is a “Purloined Letter” in which
the main defendant is History. From this theft - real or fictitious - a
plot unfolds that sheds light on some aspects of the relationship between
Schmitt and Benjamin and on the cross-reading of an outsider
like Georges Sorel. At stake is the clash between anarchy and statism
under the incipient «Um dieser Tiere, reiner und unreiner, willen!».
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