ABSTRACT
Arguably, Schmittian politics is a crossbreed of (sometimes even quasi-Spinozist) immanence, quasi-Kantian transcendentalism of shared subjectivity, and religious transcendence. For Schmitt, every political community has its own mode of existence, which is limited by the borders of that community – and this is why the state, as a spatial-political body, is important for Schmitt. If one had to name a single point of departure – a sort of Big Bang – from which Schmitt's entire intellectual endeavour flows, that would be the Biblical narrative of the Fall and, then, the killing of Abel. Admittedly, the reasonableness of Schmitt's unidirectional transference from religious theology to secular politics has been questioned. The chapter employs the theological as part-analogy and part-metaphor, unrelated to any particular religious doctrine in ways other than a structural similarity. In Schmitt's thought, humans could have enjoyed plenitude and universal agreement if Adam and Eve had not committed the Original Sin.
