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Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World
Reorienting the Political|
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| Verlag: | Lexington Books |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 22.02.2017 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781498536271 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 290 |
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Beschreibungen
<span><span>Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World: Reorienting the Political </span><span>examines</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>the reception of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in China and Taiwan. The legacies of both</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Schmitt, the German legal theorist and thinker who joined the Nazi party, and Strauss, the</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>German-Jewish classicist and political philosopher who became famous after his emigration</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>to the United States, are highly controversial. Since the 1990s, however, these thinkers have</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>had a powerful resonance for Chinese scholars. Today, when Chinese intellectuals debate the</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chinese state, the future role of China in the world, the liberal international order, and even</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>the meaning of Confucian civilization, they often employ Schmittian and Straussian concepts</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>like “the political,” “friend–enemy,” “state of exception,” “liberal education,” and “natural</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>right.” The very possibility of a genuine Chinese political theory is often thought to be tied to</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>the legacy of these two thinkers.</span></span>
<br>
<br>
<span><span>This volume explores this complex phenomenon with a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>approach. The twelve essays in this volume are written from a range of perspectives by philosophers,</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>political theorists, historians, and legal scholars from China, Germany, Taiwan,</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>and the United States.</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>the reception of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in China and Taiwan. The legacies of both</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Schmitt, the German legal theorist and thinker who joined the Nazi party, and Strauss, the</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>German-Jewish classicist and political philosopher who became famous after his emigration</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>to the United States, are highly controversial. Since the 1990s, however, these thinkers have</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>had a powerful resonance for Chinese scholars. Today, when Chinese intellectuals debate the</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>Chinese state, the future role of China in the world, the liberal international order, and even</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>the meaning of Confucian civilization, they often employ Schmittian and Straussian concepts</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>like “the political,” “friend–enemy,” “state of exception,” “liberal education,” and “natural</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>right.” The very possibility of a genuine Chinese political theory is often thought to be tied to</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>the legacy of these two thinkers.</span></span>
<br>
<br>
<span><span>This volume explores this complex phenomenon with a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>approach. The twelve essays in this volume are written from a range of perspectives by philosophers,</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>political theorists, historians, and legal scholars from China, Germany, Taiwan,</span></span>
<br>
<span><span>and the United States.</span></span>
<span><span>Reorienting the Political</span><span> examines the reception of two controversial German philosophers, Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss, in the Chinese-speaking world. This volume explores the powerful resonance of both thinkers in Chinese political thought from a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective.</span></span>
<span><span>Chapter 1 Three Strategies for Criticizing Liberalism and Their Continued Relevance<br>Chapter 2 Toward a Radical Critique of Liberalism: Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in Contemporary Chinese Discourses<br>Chapter 3 From “Carl Schmitt on Mao” to “Carl Schmitt in China”: Unsettled Issues and Unsettling Continuities<br>Chapter 4 The Tyranny of Values: Reflections on Schmitt and China<br>Chapter 5 Reading the Temperature Curve: Sinophone Schmitt-Fever in Context and Perspective<br>Chapter 6 Carl Schmitt Redux: Law and the Political in Contemporary Global Constitutionalism<br>Chapter 7 Carl Schmitt in Taiwanese Constitutional Law: An Incomplete Reception of Schmitt’s Constitutional Theory<br>Chapter 8 Leo Strauss’s Critique of the Political in a Sinophone Context<br>Chapter 9 Modernity, Tyranny, and Crisis: Leo Strauss in China<br>Chapter 10 On Leo Strauss as Negative Philosopher <br>Chapter 11 Mirror or Prism for Chinese Modernity? A Reading of Leo Strauss<br>Chapter 12 Toward a Taiwanese Cultural Renaissance: A Straussian Perspective</span></span>
<span><span>Kai Marchal is associate professor in the philosophy department of National Chengchi University.<br><br>Carl K. Y. Shaw is research fellow at the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, and professor in the Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University.</span></span>
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