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...
Carl Schmitt was the most famous and controversial defender of political theology in the twentieth century. But in his best-known work, "The Concept o...
Heinrich Meier s work on Carl Schmitt has dramatically reoriented the international debate about Schmitt and his significance for twentieth-century political thought. In "The Lesson of Carl Schmitt," Meier identifies the core of Schmitt s thought as political theology that is, political theorizing that claims to have its ultimate ground in the revelation of a mysterious or suprarational God. This radical, but half-hidden, theological foundation underlies the whole of Schmitt s often difficult and complex oeuvre, rich in historical turns and political convolutions, intentional deceptions...
Heinrich Meier s work on Carl Schmitt has dramatically reoriented the international debate about Schmitt and his significance for twentieth-century...
Heinrich Meiers Dialog unter Abwesenden hat wie kein anderes Buch der letzten Jahrzehnte die internationale Debatte uber Carl Schmitt und die Politische Theologie verandert. 1988 erschienen, bestimmte es zum ersten Mal das Zentrum und den Zusammenhang von Schmitts Werk als Politische Theologie. Die 3. Auflage enthalt neben dem Epilog von 1988, der sich mit Derridas Politik der Freundschaft auseinandersetzt, ein neues Nachwort.
Heinrich Meiers Dialog unter Abwesenden hat wie kein anderes Buch der letzten Jahrzehnte die internationale Debatte uber Carl Schmitt und die Politisc...
On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life presents Heinrich Meier's confrontation with Rousseau's Reveries, the philosopher's most beautiful and daring work, as well as his last and least understood. Bringing to bear more than thirty years of study of Rousseau, Meier unfolds his stunningly original interpretation in two parts. The first part of On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life approaches the Reveries not as another autobiographical text in the tradition of the Confessions and the Dialogues, but as a reflection on the philosophic life and...
On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life presents Heinrich Meier's confrontation with Rousseau's Reveries, the philosopher's most beaut...
Heinrich Meier's guiding insight in Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion is that philosophy must prove its right and its necessity in the face of the claim to truth and demand obedience of its most powerful opponent, revealed religion. Philosophy must rationally justify and politically defend its free and unreserved questioning, and, in doing so, turns decisively to political philosophy. In the first of three chapters, Meier determines four intertwined moments constituting the concept of political philosophy as an articulated and internally dynamic whole....
Heinrich Meier's guiding insight in Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion is that philosophy must prove its right and its...
