That the state is an entity and in fact the decisive entity rests upon its political character. - Carl Schmitt

All law is "situational law." The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.

The equation state = politics becomes erroneous and deceptive at exactly the moment when state and society penetrate each other.

The various philosophies of life presented themselves as a conquest of materialism, or in any case, they readily claimed it. That does not change anything: their valuations, revaluations, and explanations of disvalue have been emptied into the over-all secularization stream, where they have only hastened the tendency to unlearn, which is a neutralizing process, after all.