Exception Logic in the Political Philosophy of Carl Schmitt

Carl Schmitt was one of the dedicated critics of Weimar Republic and its Pluralism that criticized all socio-political transformations after French Revolution. He thought the concept of the political as a pre-requirement to the concept of government and believed that the government can be expressed only through the political. However the concept of the political is nothing but power and resolve to decide about humans and human groups relations based on friend and foe patterns. Schmitt with distinction between friend and foeperforms a form ofenemy- recognition and express that absolute and superior power is in recognizing the enemy. All the arguments concerning power have been in a normal state. But the main issue refers to a exceptional situation in which, the governor who has exclusive right in law and decides on the exception. This exception is like miracle that how the governor can perform miracle in exceptional situations. The governor is responsible for deciding about friend, enemy, declaring war and exception logic. In exception logic, the governor is the one who is granted by legal system the power to declare exceptional situation and thus the power to suspend the very creditability of the systems itself.