Nessuna norma si applica al caos. Carl Schmitt filosofo della normalità

The essay explores the relevance of the concept of normality in the realm of Carl Schmitt’s political and juridical philosophy. “Normal” refers to what one can consider a normal occurrence in a specific context or situation. However, it can also refer to what the context or the situation prescribes to be normal. The first meaning describes the state of affairs. While the second commands an action, a behaviour, something that ought to be. Both meanings are decisive in Carl Schmitt’s juridical-political philosophy. The first sense characterizes his early works mostly dedicated to the decision and the exception theory. The second sense arises for the first time in the 1930s and shifts Schmitt’s thoughts towards constructing juridical-political order having the concept of institution as its foundation. Far from juridical decisionism forms, the essay outlines Schmitt’s thoughts as the philosophy of normality.