Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World

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.

• 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

[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.