NOTES TO PAGES 190–93- In an early text on Roman Catholicism, Schmitt claims, e.g., ‘‘in the Doctrine of the Trinity
so many elements of God’s immanence are added to Jewish monotheism that here [i.e., in questions
of politics and law] as well mediations are possible’’ (Carl Schmitt,Ro ̈mischer Katholizismus und
politische Form[1923; Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1984], 12; translated asRoman Catholicism and Political
Form, trans. G. L. Ulman [Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1996], 10; the translation here is my
own). - Lutz Koepnick, ‘‘The Spectacle, the Trauerspiel, and the Politics of Resolution: Benjamin
Reading the Baroque Reading Weimar,’’Critical Inquiry22, no 2 (1996): 282; Norbert Bolz,Auszug
aus der entzauberten Welt: Philosophischer Extremismus zwischen den Weltkriegen(Munich: Wilhelm
Fink, 1989), 93; Norbert Bolz, ‘‘Charisma und Souvera ̈nita ̈t,’’ inDer Fu ̈rst dieser Welt: Carl Schmitt
und die Folgen, ed. Jacob Taubes (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1983), 261; Michael Rumpf, ‘‘Radikale
Theologie: Benjamins Beziehung zu Carl Schmitt,’’ inWalter Benjamin: Zeitgenosse der Moderne,
ed. Peter Gebhardt (Kronberg: Scriptor, 1976), 46; Jacob Taubes,Ad Carl Schmitt: Gegenstrebige
Fu ̈gung(Berlin: Merve, 1987), 22. - Suzanne Heil,‘‘Gefa ̈hrliche Beziehungen’’: Walter Benjamin und Carl Schmitt(Stuttgart:
J. B. Metzler, 1996), 160–61. - Wolfgang Fietkau, ‘‘Loss of Experience and Experience of Loss: Remarks on the Problem
of the Lost Revolution in the Work of Walter Benjamin and His Fellow Combatants,’’New German
Critique39 (1986): 175. - Michael Makropoulos, ‘‘Haltlose Souvera ̈nita ̈t: Benjamin, Schmitt und die klassische Mod-
erne in Deutschland,’’ inIntellektuellendiskurse, ed. Gangl and Raulet, 206–7. - Schmitt,Political Theology, 37–38 / 31–32 (trans. modified). Highlighting this dimension
of openness in Schmitt’s work, Slavoj Zˇizˇek argues that the polemical nature of the political in fact
involves ‘‘a tension between the structured social body, where each part has its place, and the ‘part
of no-part’ which unsettles this order’’ (Slavoj Zˇizˇek, ‘‘Carl Schmitt in the Age of Post-Politics,’’ in
The Challenge of Carl Schmitt, ed. Chantal Mouffe (London: Verso, 1999), 27–28). - See Schmitt,Roman Catholicism and Political Form, 32 / 19.
- See Schmitt,Der Begriff des Politischen, 26, 29.
- Walter Benjamin,Das Passagen-Werk, ed. Rolf Tiedemann, in Benjamin,Gesammelte Sch-
riften, 5.1:588; translated as Walter Benjamin,The Arcades Project, trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin
McLaughlin (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), 471. - Jacques Derrida and Claude Lefort separately argue that a nontheological materialism
could very well be the most consistent heritage of ‘‘thetheologico-political [duthe ́ologico-poli-
tique].’’ See Jacques Derrida,Spectres de Marx(Paris: Galile ́e, 1993), 266; translated as Jacques
Derrida,Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International,
trans. Peggy Kamuf, introd. Bernd Magnus and Stephen Cullenberg (New York: Routledge, 1994),
211; and Claude Lefort, ‘‘Permanence du The ́ologico-Politique?,’’ in Lefort,Essais sur le politique:
XIXe–XXe sie`cles(Paris: Seuil/Esprit, 1986), 254; translated as ‘‘The Permanence of the Theologico-
Political?’’ trans. David Macey, pp. 148–87 of this volume. - Walter Benjamin, ‘‘Theologisch-politisches Fragment,’’ in Benjamin,Gesammelte Schriften,
ed. and introd. Rolf Tiedemann and Hermann Schweppenha ̈user (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp,
1991), 2.1:203–4; translated as ‘‘Theologico-Political Fragment,’’ trans. Edmund Jephcott, in Benja-
min,Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, and Autobiographical Writings, ed. and introd. Peter Demetz
(New York: Schocken, 1978), 312–13. - Schmit,Political Theology,13/5.
- See Ellen Kennedy,Constitutional Failure: Carl Schmitt in Weimar(Durham, N.C.: Duke
University Press, 2004), 173.
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