Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss: The Hidden Dialogue. (book reviews)

Shadia B. Drury, University of Calgary

This book is a useful contribution to the current controversy over the fascinating and frustrating work of Carl Schmitt. The thesis of the book is that no one understood Schmitt better than Leo Strauss and that this fact was acknowledged (in private) by Schmitt himself. To prove his thesis, Meier provides us with a detailed commentary on the three editions of Schmitt's most famous work, The Concept of the Political. Even though Schmitt maintained that the changes in the later editions were not of a substantial nature, Meier sets out to show that ...

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