![Engraving showing two Pirates, ca 1720](https://www.eurozine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/2e87dc3b7e001e060433215f976b4abf.jpg)
Piratical transgressions, political transgressions
Re-reading Carl Schmitt's "Theory of the partisan"
Recent historiography emphasizing the egalitarian-democratic character of eighteenth-century piracy undermines Carl Schmitt’s quasi-legal distinction between the partisan and the pirate and reinstates the pirate as political actor within the emergent maritime state order, argues Dominique Weber.