Chapter 10 Natural Right and State of Exception in Leo Strauss

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction. Crediting God with Sovereignty 1
5. Part one. Religion and Polity-Building
6. Chapter 1 Religious Freedom: Preserving the Salt of the Earth 27
7. Chapter 2 A New Form of Religious Consciousness? Religion and Politics in Contemporary Muslim Contexts 43
8. Chapter 3 A Republic Whose Sovereign Is the Creator: The Politics of the Ban of Representation 67
9. Chapter 4 Confucianism’s Political Implications for the Contemporary World 83
10. Chapter 5 Religion and the Public Sphere in Senegal: The Evolution of a Project of Modernity 102
11. Part two. The End of the Saeculum and Global Capitalism
12. Chapter 6 Should We Be Scared? The Return of the Sacred and the Rise of Religious Nationalism in South Asia 115
13. Chapter 7 All Nightmares Back: Dependency and Independency Theories, Religion, Capitalism, and Global Society 142
14. Chapter 8 The Evangelical-Capitalist Resonance Machine 160
15. Part three. Questioning Sovereignty: Law and Justice
16. Chapter 9 ‘‘The War Has Not Ended’’: Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and the Paradoxes of Countersovereignty 177
17. Chapter 10 Natural Right and State of Exception in Leo Strauss 190
18. Chapter 11 Law and the Gift of Justice 207
19. Chapter 12 Drawing—the Single Trait: Toward a Politics of Singularity 221
20. Part four. The Religion of Democracy: Tocqueville Beyond Civil Religion
21. Chapter 13 The Religious Situation in the United States 175 Years After Tocqueville 251
22. Chapter 14 The Avatars of Religion in Tocqueville 273
23. Chapter 15 Publics, Prosperity, and Politics: The Changing Face of African American Christianity and Black Political Life 285
24. Chapter 16 Conversion 305
25. Notes 317
26. Contributors 373