Carl Schmitt & Leo Strauss
Subtitle: the hidden dialogue ; including Strauss's notes on Schmitt's Concept of the political & three letters from Strauss to Schmitt
By: Heinrich Meier ; translated by J. Harvey Lomax ; foreword by Joseph Cropsey.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Schmitt, Carl, 1888- ; Strauss, Leo -- Correspondence.; Schmitt, Carl, 1888-  -- Correspondence.; Political science.; State, The.
Other 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.