Carl Schmitt and the Katechon

Friend and enemy in a multipolar world

Alexander Dugin on the crisis of the friend–enemy distinction in a multipolar world.

I have always approached Carl Schmitt with enormous interest and attention. I translated his works. Certain things—for example, his treatment of Hobbes’s Leviathan, his interpretation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, or his critique of Political Romanticism—provoked some resista…