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1、FredricJamesonNotesontheNomosITheastonishingcontemporaneityofCarlSchmitt’sTheNomosoftheEarthcanberegis-teredinatleasttwoways:A.Itispostmoderninitsinnovationinspa-tialanalysis,which,combiningjuridicalandgeographicalreference,transcendsboth(seebelow).B.Thebitternes
2、sofitsanti-Americanism(motivatedbySchmitt’slongdetentionandinterrogationafterthewar)maywellpro-longallkindsofEuropeantraditions(includ-ingtheexclusionofEnglandfromEurope)butalsooverlapstheColdWarandantici-patesasituationinwhichtheUnitedStateshasbecome‘‘theonlysup
3、erpower,’’therebydebasingandenfeeblingtheoldEuropeaninternationalequilibriumandallpossibleconceptualizationsofa‘‘justwar.’’Thesitua-tionalsoholdsforcountlessconstructionsandargumentsinwhich‘‘theoreticiansoftheLeagueofNationsandAmericanjuristsandpoliticians(forexa
4、mple)laboriouslyat-tempttorevivemedievaldoctrines,inpar-TheSouthAtlanticQuarterly104:2,Spring2005.Copyright©2005byDukeUniversityPress.200FredricJamesonticularthosedealingwithjustwars,inordertoutilizethemintheser-1viceoftheirownworldviews.’’Ironically,thisleadsSch
5、mitttoassociateGoebbels’snotionof‘‘totalwar’’withthepostwarUnitedStates.IITheoriginsofthebook’s‘‘spatialthought’’are,however,moretraditional.FollowingHusserl,whosecritiqueofmodernabstraction(inTheCrisisoftheEuropeanSciences)locatesthefallintheseparation,theoccult
6、ationand/orrepression,ofgeometryfromtheexistentialpraxisoflandsurveyinginancientEgypt,SchmittdiagnosesasimilardegradationinthedissociationofthejuridicaltraditionfromthebrutegeographicalfactofLandnahme,thatistosay,theseizureandoccupationoflandassuch.(Itshouldbeadd
7、edthatthesetermsaremisnomersandanachronisms,insofarastheycodifyorideologicallyappropriatethesituationof‘‘landcapture’’foragivenhis-toricalnomos.Thisqualification,however,makesitclearthatforSchmitttheconceptofthenomosisakindofequivalentofthefunctionofthe‘‘modeofpro
8、duction’’forMarxism;thatis,itnamesastructureoftotalitythathastakenvarioushistoricalforms.)IIIButthisphenomenologicalspatiality,whichopposestheconcretepraxis(la