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.

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 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