From Legitimacy to Dictatorship - And Back Again: Leo Strauss's Critique of the Anti-Liberalism of Carl Schmitt

Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 77-103

  Howse, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 0002882604     PISSN: 08418209     EISSN: 20564260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0841820900000254     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. S. Holmes, The Anatomy of Anti-Liberalism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993).
2. L. Strauss, "Notes on Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Politicar in G. Schwab, ed., The Concept of the Political trans. H. Lomax (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).
3. H. Meier, Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss: The Hidden Dialogue, trans. H. Lomax (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).
4. "Liberal Zealotry" (1994) 103 Yale L.J. 1363.
5. N. Behnegar, "The Liberal Politics of Leo Strauss" in M. Palmer & T.L. Pangle, eds., Political Philosophy and the Human Soul: Essays in Memory of Allan Bloom (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995) at 259ff.
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8. Luc Ferry in the first volume of Philosophic politique, le droit: la nouvelle querelle des anciens etdes modernes (Paris: Quadrige/PUF, 1996).
9. In L. Strauss, Spinoza's Critique of Religion, trans. E. Sinclair (New York: Schocken, 1965) at 1-34.
10. C. Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, trans. G. Schwab (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985) (hereinafter Political Theology) at 65-66.
11. P. Bourdieu, The Political Ontology of Martin Heidegger (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991), ch. 2, especially at 13-15.
12. Harvey C. Mansfield Jr., Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of the Modern Executive Power (New York: Free Press, 1989).
13. See, for instance, H. Kelsen, "Law and Morality" in O. Weinberger, ed., Essays in Legal and Moral Philosophy, trans P. Heath (Dordrecht and Boston: D. Reidel, 1976) at p. 83
14. Strauss, near the beginning of Natural Right and History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965) at 4
15. Kelsen, Allgemeine Staatslehre (Berlin: 1925) at 335- 36.
16. D. Dyzenhaus, "vNow the Machine Runs Itself': Carl Schmitt on Hobbes and Kelsen" (1994) 16 Cardozo L. Rev. 1.
17. See D. Dyzenhaus, Truth's Revenge: Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen, and Herman Heller in Weimar, forthcoming, Oxford University Press;
18. see also W. Scheuerman, "Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberal Constitutionalism" (1996) 58 Rev. of Politics 299 at 306-07.
19. Here there are unmistakable parallels to Nietzsche. For an interpretation of Nietzsche that wrestles with the paradoxical project of a moral standard beyond good and evil, see Peter Berkowitz, Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995).
20. L. Strauss, 77ie Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and its Genesis, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952) at xiv-xvii.
21. Strauss's mature reflections on Machiavelli are to be found in his Thoughts on Machiavelli (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958).
22. See N. Machiavelli, The Prince, trans. M. Musa (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1964), ch. XVIII.
23. L. Strauss, Natural Right and History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965).
24. "On a Forgotten Kind of Writing" in What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959) at 223.
25. K. Lowith, "The Occasional Decisionism of Carl Schmitt" in R. Wolin, ed., K. Lowith, Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995) at 137-69.
26. On McCarthyism, see, among other works, E. Schreker, The Age ofMcCarthyism: A Brief History in Documents; T. Reeves, ed., McCarthyism (Hinsdale, IL: Dryden Press, 1973).
27. R. S. Feuerlicht, Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism: the Hate that Haunts America (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972).
28. M. Viroli, For Love of Country: An Essay on Patriotism and Nationalism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995).
29. R. Howse, 'Terms of Engagement: Liberalism and the Good of Multicultural Communities", McGill Legal Theory Workshop, Faculty of Law, McGill University, 1996.
30. D. Dyzenhaus, "Liberalism After the Fall: Schmitt, Rawls and the Problem of Justification" (1996) 22 Phil. & Social Crit. 9.
31. A. Kronman, The Lost Lawyer: Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press, 1993).
32. Joseph Raz, The Morality of Freedom (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989).
33. J.S. Mill, who looms large in Strauss's essay "Liberal Education and Responsibility" in Liberalism: Ancient and Modern (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).
34. See M. Nussbaum, "Non-relative Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach" in M. Nussbaum & A. Sen, eds., The Quality of Life (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993) at 242-69.