Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss: The Hidden Dialogue

Abstract

Carl Schmitt was the most famous and controversial defender of political theology in the twentieth 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 political theory on his faith in divine revelation. In 1932 Leo Strauss published a critical review of Concept that initiated an extremely subtle exchange 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 a number of pas

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Carl Schmitt & Leo Strauss: the hidden dialogue : including Strauss's notes on Schmitt's Concept of the political & three letters from Strauss to Schmitt

Meier, Heinrich; Lomax, J. Harvey; Cropsey, Joseph

Meier, Heinrich; Lomax, J. Harvey; Cropsey, Joseph

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