Carl Schmitt's Institutional Theory

Mariano Croce is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome. He held the post of Marie Curie Fellow at the Faculty of Law of the University of Antwerp, where is co-leader of the research line in kinship studies. His books include The Legal Theory of Carl Schmitt (2013, with Andrea Salvatore), The Politics of Juridification (2018), and The Legacy of Pluralism: The Continental Jurisprudence of Santi Romano, Carl Schmitt, and Costantino Mortati (2020, with Marco Goldoni). Andrea Salvatore is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome. His books include The Legal Theory of Carl Schmitt (2013, with Mariano Croce) and Undoing Ties: Political Philosophy at the Waning of the State (2015, with Mariano Croce).

• 1. What is exceptionalist decisionism? Reinterpreting Political Theology; 2. Looking backward: Schmitt before exceptionalist decisionism; 3. How exceptionalist decisionism came about: Schmitt and coeval critics; 4. A fresh start: Schmitt and state pluralism; 5. Out of the exceptionalist quagmire: The notion of institution in Schmitt's thinking; 6. The politics of normality: Schmitt's concrete-order thinking; 7. Doing away with politics: Schmitt's juristic institutionalism; Index.

'An excellent new study developing the complexity of Carl Schmitt's thought without concealing its unsavoury consistencies. Mariano Croce and Andrea Salvatore's judicious scholarship offers a clear-eyed, sobering look at Schmitt as a legal theorist of normality rather than exception.' Clara Maier, Columbia University