The aim of the paper is to reconstruct the relationship between Kolnai’s criticism of the total state, the embodiments of which were, according to him, both the national-socialist as well as the communist state, and his philosophical apology of the corporate state. The goal of an endeavor is to contribute to both history of the phenomenological movement as well as to theory of the state by a systematic reconstruction of Kolnai’s phenomenology of the state as an unjustly unacknowledged position within the 20th-century political theory.