{"product_id":"carl-schmitt-and-leo-strauss-in-the-chinesespeaking-world-9781498536264","title":"Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarl 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, friendenemy, 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-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[The] study has identified a serious problem in contemporary Chinese political thought and brings this deep undercurrent to light in an important volume of work in English. * Journal of Chinese Political Science *\u003cbr\u003eThis rich volume sparkles with insight as a dozen scholars describe and debate the appropriation of Schmitt and Strauss in the contemporary Sinophone world. Anyone seeking to understand and then engage with Chinese criticism of liberalism and skepticism of Western modernity should start here. -- Stephen C. Angle, Professor of Philosophy and East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University\u003cbr\u003eCarl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World does much more than contribute to the developing literature on cross-cultural political theory. By approaching Schmitt and Strauss from (a) Chinese perspective(s), the authors give us a much more complex understanding of these scholars. They show that the contemporary Chinese appropriation of Schmitt and Strauss leads not to a misunderstanding of those thinkers but to ‘a creative appropriation of foreign ideas for the sake of a new articulation of Chinese cultural and political identity.’ Thus this volume not only deepens our understanding of these two important anti-liberal thinkers but gives us a much more complex picture of the meaning of modernity as it has developed over the last 120 years and not only in China. Necessary reading not only for Schmitt and Strauss but for all interested in China and the meanings of modernity. -- Tracy Strong, University of Southampton and UCSD Distinguished Professor, emeritus\u003cbr\u003eCalls to globalize political thought are rife, but few publications offer a concrete or sustained consideration of the specific issues driving truly global thinking about politics. This volume is a notable and brilliant exception. Its nuanced and comprehensive examination of how Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss are being interpreted in the Chinese-speaking world today draws on the expertise of a range of scholars from all over the world to think critically about the meaning and promise of this exchange. This volume promises to define the terms of such research for years to come. -- Leigh Jenco, London School of Economics and Political Science\u003cbr\u003eThis volume represents comparative political theory at its very best. It will be essential reading not only for those interested in contemporary Chinese thought but also for scholars and students everywhere grappling with the ideas of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss. -- Mark Lilla, Professor of Humanities, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 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","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040716915031,"sku":"9781498536264","price":94.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498536264.jpg?v=1750947610","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/carl-schmitt-and-leo-strauss-in-the-chinesespeaking-world-9781498536264","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}