Reorienting the Political examines the reception of two controversial German philosophers, Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss, in the Chinese-speaking world. This volume explores the powerful resonance of both thinkers in Chinese political thought from a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective.

Chapter 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

Edited by Kai Marchal and Carl K. Y. Shaw - Contributions by Harald Bluhm; Jianhong Chen; Thomas Fröhlich; Chuan-wei Hu; Kuan-min Huang; Shu-Perng Hwang; Charlotte Kroll; Han Liu; Kai Marchal; Christopher Nadon; Carl K. Y. Shaw and Mario Wenning