Linguaggio originario e pensiero dello spazio in Carl Schmitt

The paper deals with Carl Schmitt’s philosophy of original language. Even though the topic has been almost ignored in the international scientific debate, I try to show why Schmitt’s analysis of original language is crucial to understand his spatial thought. In the first two paragraphs, I provide a brief reconstruction of the biographical and theoretical relationship between Martin Heidegger and Carl Schmitt. In paragraphs 3-4-5 I analyse extensively a few texts (i.e. Der Nomos der Erde, Raum und Rom, Nomos – Nahme – Name). In all these texts, Schmitt provides a suggestive linguistic and phonological analysis which concerns the following words: Nomos, Raum, Meer, Spatium, namely the crucial notions of his spatial thought. Therefore, I propose a new interpretation of Schmitt’s latest works, and I argue that, in his philosophy, spatial thought and language analysis are strongly connected. In the conclusions, I summarize the results of the paper and sketch possible new lines of research.