Publication

1995 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

34,000 words, Guess

Page Count

136 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number95008803
  • Goodreads4979492
  • LibraryThing1137827

Classifications

  • DDC320
  • LCCJA74.S33 M413 1995

Alternate Titles

  • Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss

Description

Carl Schmitt is the most famous and controversial defender of political theology in our century. But in his best-known work, The Concept of the Political, issued in 1927, 1932, and 1933, political considerations led him to conceal the dependence of his entire political theory on his faith in divine revelation. In 1932 political philosopher Leo Strauss published a critical review of The Concept of the Political that earned him Schmitt's respect and initiated an extremely subtle interchange between Schmitt and Strauss regarding Schmitt's critique of liberalism. Although Schmitt never answered Strauss publicly, in the third edition of his book he changed key passages in response to Strauss's criticisms without ever acknowledging them. In the present book Heinrich Meier astutely follows the trail left by the interlocutors. The present volume includes a new translation of Strauss's classic essay and the first English version of three letters to Schmitt from Strauss. It is essential reading for students of politics, political theory, and philosophy.

Subjects

Topics

320The StateState, TheState, The.CorrespondencePolitical sciencePolitieke theorie

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