TY - JOUR AU - Sorell, Tom PY - 2016/01/03 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Schmitt, Hobbes and the Politics of Emergency JF - Filozofski vestnik JA - FV VL - 24 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/article/view/3394 SP - AB - Carl Schmitt reads Hobbes as a philosopher who thinks that politics is a response to emergency, and Schmitt adapts what he takes to be Hobbesian ideas to give a politics of emergency of his own, one that was supposed to have particular relevance to the upheavals of the Weimar Republic. I shall consider how Schmitt's theory might apply to at least one recent emergency. I shall claim that when applied it has considerable shortcomings, but that these are not always inherited from Hobbes. ER -