Heinrich Meier: 11 books

Book cover of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss

Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss

The Hidden Dialogue

by Heinrich Meier
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012

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...
Book cover of Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion
by Heinrich Meier
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017

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...
Book cover of On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life

On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life

Reflections on Rousseau's Rêveries in Two Books

by Heinrich Meier
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016

On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life presents Heinrich Meier’s confrontation with Rousseau’s Rêveries, 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...
Book cover of The Lesson of Carl Schmitt

The Lesson of Carl Schmitt

Four Chapters on the Distinction between Political Theology and Political Philosophy, Expanded Edition

by Heinrich Meier
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011

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...
Book cover of Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem
by Heinrich Meier
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2006

This book, by one of the most prominent interpreters of Leo Strauss's thought, was the first to address the problem that Leo Strauss himself said was the theme of his studies: the theologico-political problem or the confrontation with the theological and the political alternative to philosophy as...
Book cover of Die Zukunft der Demokratie

Die Zukunft der Demokratie

Kritik und Plädoyer

by Sabino Cassese, Dan Diner, Horst Dreier
Language: German
Release Date: August 28, 2018

Die Herausforderung der Demokratie durch den Aufstieg autoritärer Regime und den Angriff des politisch-religiösen Radikalismus, aber auch die Krise der Repräsentation, das Schwinden der Demokratie im Inneren bestimmen die öffentliche Debatte. Der Glaube, dass der Prozess der Modernisierung die...
Book cover of Politische Philosophie und die Herausforderung der Offenbarungsreligion
by Heinrich Meier
Language: German
Release Date: August 23, 2013

Die Offenbarungsreligion fordert die Philosophie theologisch und politisch heraus. Ihr Wahrheitsanspruch und ihre Gehorsamsforderung widerstreiten dem Recht und der Notwendigkeit der Philosophie, die auf freies, rückhaltloses Fragen gegründet ist. Sowenig der Autor die Philosophie als eine akademische...
Book cover of Was ist Nietzsches Zarathustra?

Was ist Nietzsches Zarathustra?

Eine philosophische Auseinandersetzung

by Heinrich Meier
Language: German
Release Date: February 3, 2017

Also sprach Zarathustra ist das berühmteste und das rätselhafteste Werk Nietzsches. Der Philosoph nahm für sich in Anspruch, der Menschheit mit seiner Dichtung das tiefste Buch gegeben zu haben. Um Klarheit über seine „Gabe“, eine Parodie der Bibel, zu gewinnen, lautet die entscheidende Frage:...
Book cover of Leo Strauss, Education, and Political Thought
by Shadia B. Drury, Jon Fennell, Tim McDonough
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011

This collection by some of the leading scholars of Strauss' work is the first devoted to Strauss' thought regarding education. It seeks to address his conception of education as it applies to a range of his most important concepts, such as his views on the importance of revelation, his critique of...
Book cover of Politik und Religion

Politik und Religion

Zur Diagnose der Gegenwart

by Giorgio Agamben, Robert C. Bartlett, Hillel Fradkin
Language: German
Release Date: May 24, 2017

«Politik und Religion» ist wieder ein zentraler Gegenstand der öffentlichen Debatte. Nach langen Jahren, in denen viele Sozialwissenschaftler die Erwartung hegten, der religiöse Glaube werde im Gefolge des «Modernisierungsprozesses» allmählich ausgezehrt und schließlich absterben, wird heute...
Book cover of Geschichte des deutschsprachigen Romans
by Heinrich Detering, Benedikt Jeßing, Volker Meid
Language: German
Release Date: June 1, 2013

Ein Buch, das ein Bestseller werden will, sollte, wenn eben möglich, unter dem Titel die Gattungsbezeichnung "Roman" tragen. Lyrik hat keine Chance, aber auch Novellen und Erzählungen oder gar Erzählungssammlungen sind nicht sonderlich beliebt. Das ist schon länger so in der deutschen...
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