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Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss

The Hidden Dialogue

By Carl Schmitt, Heinrich Meier, Leo Strauss, J. Harvey Lomax (Translator), Joseph Cropsey (Preface)

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In 1928, German philosopher Carl Schmitt published The Concept of the Political. It quickly became one of the most influential works of political philosophy published and remains a classic. In 1932, a young student of political theory named Leo Strauss published a critique of Concept aContinue

In 1928, German philosopher Carl Schmitt published The Concept of the Political. It quickly became one of the most influential works of political philosophy published and remains a classic. In 1932, a young student of political theory named Leo Strauss published a critique of Concept and over the next two years, wrote several letters to Schmitt questioning aspects of his argument. Schmitt never answered Strauss's letters, but in his revision of the book, he changed a number of passages in response to Strauss's criticisms without even acknowledging them. In this volume, Heinrich Meier shows what this remarkable "hidden dialogue" reveals about the development of these two seminal thinkers.

At the center of the dialogue, Meier argues, was the mutual attempt to define exactly what politics is and how it relates to the philosophical tradition and to modern society. Taking Hobbes's "war of all against all" as his inspiration, Schmitt challenged contemporary liberal society's unwillingness to admit that politics was literally "a matter of life and death." Meier's book insightfully reveals how Strauss's critique forced Schmitt to see that the Hobbesian state was, instead, the very foundation of the liberalism he so despised.

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  • My master thesis relies on this book very much. And I recommend that anyone who wants to know the theoretical relationship between Schmitt and Strauss needs to have this book.
    It is very interesting for me to know there is some connection between Cassirer, Schmitt, and Strauss from this book. ... (continue)

    My master thesis relies on this book very much. And I recommend that anyone who wants to know the theoretical relationship between Schmitt and Strauss needs to have this book.
    It is very interesting for me to know there is some connection between Cassirer, Schmitt, and Strauss from this book. When Strauss was applying the program of the study about Hobbes, he asked two persons to write the recommendation. One was Schmitt and the other was Cassirer. It's so funny. I haven't read any article on Cassirer and Schmitt. The most famous discussion on Cassirer was the dabate with Heidegger. I think there may be some new aspects on Cassirer from Schmitt's theory.However it's just thinking not very sure.
    Back to the topic. It's not very easy for Chinese world to understand the main argumentations in Meier's book. Because of the different "theological " traditions, we need to have some background about Catholicism and the debate between political philosophy and theology. In the Chinese scholar circle the theology is not a very wide-known field and I believe that's the main reason why the important book can't motivate the wide discussion. Just having a glance at the article about the constitutional theory will get the proof.

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 156 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0226518892
  • ISBN-13: 9780226518893
  • Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
  • Pub date: Nov 01, 1995
  • Dimensions: 1419 mm x 968 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback
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