
Episode 71: John Milbank on Carl Schmitt and the Current Global Crisis
The Telos Press Podcast
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The Similarity Between Schmidt's Third Idiom and the Russian Legacy
In an essay, you write about some similarities between Schmidt's third idiom about of global regions and these Russian theorists. Can you describe what, how do you see them as similar? Well, I think the similarity arises again in terms of the aspect of Schmidt that's not so decisionistic, but is much more about a kind of very irrational influence of the land on our identity. And it's at that point that it has a kind of, you know, ethnic and racist dimension.
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