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 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 PhilosopherChapter 11 Mirror or Prism for Chinese Modernity? A Reading of Leo StraussChapter 12 Toward a Taiwanese Cultural Renaissance: A Straussian Perspective