Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World

Informationen zum Autor Kai Marchal is associate professor in the philosophy department of National Chengchi University.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. Klappentext Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World: Reorienting the Political examinesthe reception of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in China and Taiwan. The legacies of bothSchmitt, the German legal theorist and thinker who joined the Nazi party, and Strauss, theGerman-Jewish classicist and political philosopher who became famous after his emigrationto the United States, are highly controversial. Since the 1990s, however, these thinkers havehad a powerful resonance for Chinese scholars. Today, when Chinese intellectuals debate theChinese state, the future role of China in the world, the liberal international order, and eventhe meaning of Confucian civilization, they often employ Schmittian and Straussian conceptslike "the political," "friend-enemy," "state of exception," "liberal education," and "naturalright." The very possibility of a genuine Chinese political theory is often thought to be tied tothe legacy of these two thinkers.This volume explores this complex phenomenon with a cross-cultural and interdisciplinaryapproach. The twelve essays in this volume are written from a range of perspectives by philosophers,political theorists, historians, and legal scholars from China, Germany, Taiwan,and the United States. Zusammenfassung Reorienting the Political 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Three Strategies for Criticizing Liberalism and Their Continued RelevanceChapter 2 Toward a Radical Critique of Liberalism: Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in Contemporary Chinese DiscoursesChapter 3 From "Carl Schmitt on Mao" to "Carl Schmitt in China": Unsettled Issues and Unsettling ContinuitiesChapter 4 The Tyranny of Values: Reflections on Schmitt and ChinaChapter 5 Reading the Temperature Curve: Sinophone Schmitt-Fever in Context and PerspectiveChapter 6 Carl Schmitt Redux: Law and the Political in Contemporary Global ConstitutionalismChapter 7 Carl Schmitt in Taiwanese Constitutional Law: An Incomplete Reception of Schmitt's Constitutional TheoryChapter 8 Leo Strauss's Critique of the Political in a Sinophone ContextChapter 9 Modernity, Tyranny, and Crisis: Leo Strauss in ChinaChapter 10 On Leo Strauss as Negative Philosopher Chapter 11 Mirror or Prism for Chinese Modernity? A Reading of Leo StraussChapter 12 Toward a Taiwanese Cultural Renaissance: A Straussian Perspective...

Autorentext
Edited by Kai Marchal and Carl K. Y. Shaw - Contributions by Harald Bluhm; Jianhong Chen; Thomas Fröhlich; Chuan-wei Hu; Kuan-min Huang; Shu-Perng Hwang; Charlotte Kroll; Han Liu; Kai Marchal; Christopher Nadon; Carl K. Y. Shaw and Mario Wenning

Klappentext
Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World: Reorienting the Political examines the reception of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in China and Taiwan. The legacies of both Schmitt, the German legal theorist and thinker who joined the Nazi party, and Strauss, the German-Jewish classicist and political philosopher who became famous after his emigration to the United States, are highly controversial. Since the 1990s, however, these thinkers have had a powerful resonance for Chinese scholars. Today, when Chinese intellectuals debate the Chinese state, the future role of China in the world, the liberal international order, and even the meaning of Confucian civilization, they often employ Schmittian and Straussian concepts like "the political," "friend-enemy," "state of exception," "liberal education," and "natural right." The very possibility of a genuine Chinese political theory is often thought to be tied to the legacy of these two thinkers. This volume explores this complex phenomenon with a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach. The twelve essays in this volume are written from a range of perspectives by philosophers, political theorists, historians, and legal scholars from China, Germany, Taiwan, and the United States.

Zusammenfassung
Reorienting the Political 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.

Inhalt
Chapter 1 Three Strategies for Criticizing Liberalism and Their Continued Relevance Chapter 2 Toward a Radical Critique of Liberalism: Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in Contemporary Chinese Discourses Chapter 3 From "Carl Schmitt on Mao" to "Carl Schmitt in China": Unsettled Issues and Unsettling Continuities Chapter 4 The Tyranny of Values: Reflections on Schmitt and China Chapter 5 Reading the Temperature Curve: Sinophone Schmitt-Fever in Context and Perspective Chapter 6 Carl Schmitt Redux: Law and the Political in Contemporary Global Constitutionalism Chapter 7 Carl Schmitt in Taiwanese Constitutional Law: An Incomplete Reception of Schmitt's Constitutional Theory Chapter 8 Leo Strauss's Critique of the Political in a Sinophone Context Chapter 9 Modernity, Tyranny, and Crisis: Leo Strauss in China Chapter 10 On Leo Strauss as Negative Philosopher Chapter 11 Mirror or Prism for Chinese Modernity? A Reading of Leo Strauss Chapter 12 Toward a Taiwanese Cultural Renaissance: A Straussian Perspective

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