Life meets Enemy: A conceptual inconsistency in understanding the political between Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben

Abstract

The thesis concerns itself with the discrepancy in the understanding of political and exception between Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben. Interpretation of their selected works is accomplished through the employment of the hermeneutical method by Hans-Georg Gadamer, while the comparison is drawn along the lines of the comparative textual method by Kerry Walk. Thesis answers the question of posed conceptual discrepancy, as well as the question of validity of the use of the method of circular movement in the research of contemporary political science.

Práca sa zaoberá otázkou rozdielnosti vnímania konceptuálnych kategórií politického a výnimky na príklade politického myslenia Carla Schmitta a Giorgio Agambena. Interpretácia vybraných diel prebieha na základe hermeneutickej metódy Hansa-Georga Gadamera a vzájomná komparácia pojmov na základe metódy Kerryho Walka. V závere práca zodpovedá otázku pojmovej rozdielnosti, rovnako ako aj otázku aplikovateľnosti metódy kruhového pohybu.