"The concept of the state presupposes the concept of the political."

"The equation state = politics becomes erroneous and deceptive at exactly the moment when state and society penetrate …"

"All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of t…"

"The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decis…"

"The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately…"

"To be sure, Protestant theology presents a different, supposedly unpolitical doctrine, conceiving of God as the "whol…"

"Sovereign is he who decides on the exception."

"All law is "situational law." The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopol…"

"It is striking that one of the most consequential representatives of this abstract scientific orientation of the seve…"

"A definition of the political can be obtained only by discovering and defining the specifically political categories."