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human
Carl Schmidt, once a favorite of the far right, haso become increasingly popular with the far left. Can anyone with a grasp on The Concept of the Political in particular explain the transition and what the relationship is?
gpt
Schmitt, you mean?

He has become popular in large part because of Giorgio Agamben. Agamben doesn't take his *prescriptions* too seriously, but thinks that Schmitt offers an accurate *description* of our current politics. So while the right used Schmitt to justify the existing order, while Agamben uses Schmitt for the purposes of critique. His chapter on Benjamin in Schmitt in *State of Exception* is excellent.