ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book engages with Schmitt's positing in Constitutional Theory of the political unity of the people as a precondition for the exercise of constituent power. In Schmitt's later thinking, nomos plays an important role. In Politics of Friendship Derrida engages primarily with the concept of the political as Schmitt analyses it in The Concept of the Political, The Theory of the Partisan and Ex Captivitate Salus. The concept of the political is central to Schmitt's constitutional theory. The re-location of the enemy that takes place in Derrida's reading of Schmitt has important implications for sovereignty, the state, constituent power, identity, representation, the concept of the constitution, human rights, as well as the nomos of the earth. The book explores the relationship between identity and representation in more detail.
