ABSTRACT
For years, scholars have attempted to define politics (or ‘the political’) in various ways. One of the most notable definitions may be that of German political philosopher Carl Schmitt. He defines the political as the distinction between friend and enemy:
The political is the most intense and extreme antagonism, and every concrete antagonism becomes that much more political the closer it approaches the most extreme point, that of the friend-enemy grouping. In its entirety the state as an organized political entity decides for itself the friend-enemy distinction.
