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Friendship, Enmity and the Challenges to Liberal Democracy Agonal, Political and Legal Thinking in Nietzsche and Schmitt
By Vincent Seminck
Copyright 2026
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book describes, evaluates and compares the ideas of conflict, friendship and enmity in the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche and Carl Schmitt.
What can we learn from Nietzsche’s and Schmitt’s ideas of friendship and enmity in the light of the dangerous challenges facing Western democracies today? Nietzsche and Schmitt are undoubtedly among the most influential Continental thinkers of the... Read more
1.The Agonal and the Political 2. Agonal Friendship and Enmity 3. Political Friendship and Enmity 4. Beyond Friend and Enemy 5. The Antichrist and katechon 6. With Nietzsche against Schmitt 7. Of a Thousand and One Laws 8. Conclusion
Biography
Vincent Seminck is Assistant Professor of Legal Theory at Utrecht University.
