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78The Philosopher as EnemyGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 17 (1-2): 325-332. 1994.Alexandre Kojève had traveled via Peking. The high official of the French Ministry of the Economy stopped off in Berlin in order to speak to the heads of the German Socialist Student Association. In the Hotel Berliner Hof on Lake Diana, the Parisian guest advised Dutschke & Co. that the most important thing they could do would be to learn Greek. Such an answer to the question “What is to be done?” was not expected from this famous man, whose legendary seminars on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit …Read more
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58The lesson of Carl Schmitt: four chapters on the distinction between political theology and political philosophyUniversity of Chicago Press. 1998.This book is the culmination of Heinrich Meier's acclaimed analyses of the controversial thought of Carl Schmitt. Meier identifies the core of Schmitt's thought as political theology--that is, political theorizing that claims to have its ultimate ground in the revelation of a mysterious or supra-rational God. This radical, but half-hidden, theological foundation unifies the whole of Schmitt's often difficult and complex oeuvre, cutting through the intentional deceptions and unintentional obfusca…Read more
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49Leo Strauss and the Theological-Political ProblemCambridge University Press. 2006.By one of the most prominent interpreters of Leo Strauss's thought, this book is the first to examine the theme that Strauss considered to be key to his entire intellectual enterprise. The theologico-political problem refers to the confrontation between the theological and political alternative to philosophy as a way of life. Heinrich Meier clarifies the distinction between political theology and political philosophy and sheds new light on the unifying center of Strauss' philosophical work. The …Read more
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42Why Political Philosophy?Review of Metaphysics 56 (2). 2002.WE ALL KNOW THE PICTURE OF THE PHILOSOPHER that Aristophanes drew in the Clouds for both philosophers and nonphilosophers. As he is shown to us in this most famous and thoughtworthy of comedies, the philosopher, consumed by a burning thirst for knowledge, lives for inquiry alone. In choosing his objects, he allows himself neither to be led by patriotic motives or social interests nor to be determined by the distinctions between good and evil, beautiful and ugly, useful and harmful. Religious pro…Read more
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35Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss: The Hidden DialogueUniversity of Chicago Press. 1995.Although Schmitt never answered Strauss publicly, in the third edition of his book he changed a number of passages in response to Strauss’s criticisms.
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17On the LawgiverIn Christopher Lynch & Jonathan Marks (eds.), Principle and prudence in Western political thought, State University of New York Press. pp. 171-189. 2016.
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15Was ist Politische Theologie? - What Is Political Theology?Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation. 2006.Einführende Bemerkungen zu einem umstrittenen Begriff.
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12What is Nietzsche's Zarathustra?: a philosophical confrontationUniversity of Chicago Press. 2021.In this book Heinrich Meier takes on the question of the meaning of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which has long proven controversial among readers. Meier closely examines the work to find a coherent structure and uncover the meanings in the figure of Zarathustra. By showing the unity in Zarathustra's life and teaching, Meier argues that the hidden architecture of the work reveals the development of self-knowledge for the philosopher. What Is Nietzsche's Zarathustra? A Philosophical Confro…Read more
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12Nietzsche's Legacy: "Ecce Homo" and "The Antichrist," Two Books on Nature and PoliticsUniversity of Chicago Press. 2024.A reappraisal of Ecce Homo and The Antichrist within Nietzsche’s oeuvre. Nietzsche's Legacy takes on the most challenging and misunderstood works in Nietzsche’s oeuvre to illuminate his view of what a philosopher is and what constitutes a philosophic life. Interpreting Ecce Homo and The Antichrist as twin books meant to replace the abandoned Will to Power project, Heinrich Meier recovers them from the stigma of Nietzsche’s late mental collapse, showing that these works are, above all, a lucid se…Read more
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9Leo Strauss, Education, and Political Thought (edited book)Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2011.This collection by some of the leading scholars of Strauss's work is the first devoted to Strauss's 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 modern democracy and the importance of modern classical education
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9Heinrich Meiers Buch versucht am Leitfaden der Frage, ob Zarathustra ein Philosoph oder ein Prophet ist, zum Kern des Dramas vorzustoßen.
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8Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed ReligionUniversity of Chicago Press. 2017.The book sets out to determine political philosophy as a philosophic concept and to test it face to face with the challenge posed by revealed Religion.
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7Nietzsches Wille zur Macht und die Selbsterkenntnis des PhilosophenNietzscheforschung 30 (1): 127-139. 2023.
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7On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life: Reflections on Rousseau's "Rêveries" in Two BooksUniversity of Chicago Press. 2016."On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life" presents Heinrich Meier's confrontation with Rousseau's "Rêveries", his most beautiful and daring writing. The "Rêveries" show the fire of philosophy in the mirror of the water; in the reflections of the unlimited, needing more precise determination; of the inconspicuous, needing careful inspection; and of the surface, needing in-depth Interpretation.
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6The lesson of Carl Schmitt: four chapters on the distinction between political theology and political philosophyUniversity of Chicago Press. 1998.Morality, or one's own question as a figure -- Politics, or what is truth? -- Revelation, or he that is not with me is against me -- History, or the Christian Epimetheus.
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2Das vorliegende Buch unternimmt de Versuch, die Politische Philosophie als philosophischen Begriff zu bestimmen und diesen Aug' in Aug' mit der Herausforderung der Offenbarungsreligion zu bewähren.
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2Das theologisch-politische Problem. Zum Thema von Leo StraussMetzler Verlag. 2003.Nichts ist so umstritten im Denken von Leo Strauss und nichts ist so zentral für sein Verständnis wie das theologisch-politische Problem. Da es im Zentrum von Strauss' Politischer Philosophie steht, findet der Streit seinen Niederschlag in allen großen Kontroversen, die sein OEuvre umgeben. Heinrich Meiers theologisch-politisches Traktat ist die erste Schrift zu Strauss, die das Problem, von dem Strauss sagte, es sei das Thema seiner Untersuchungen gewesen, zu ihrem Thema macht. Neben dem progra…Read more
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2Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss und „Der Begriff des Politischen”Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 53 (1): 155-155. 1991.
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Recovering Reason: Essays in Honor of Thomas L. Pangle (edited book)Lexington Books. 2010.Recovering Reason: Essays in Honor of Thomas L. Pangle is a collection of essays composed by students and friends of Thomas L. Pangle to honor his seminal work and outstanding guidance in the study of political philosophy. These essays examine both Socrates' and modern political philosophers' attempts to answer the question of the right life for human beings, as those attempts are introduced and elaborated in the work of thinkers from Homer and Thucydides to Nietzsche and Charles Taylor
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Ludwig Maximilians Universität, MünchenFaculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Study of ReligionOther
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Munich, Bayern, Germany
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Philosophy, Misc |
History of Western Philosophy |
Social and Political Philosophy |
History of Political Philosophy |