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³For a critical rejoinder against Liu's Straussian turn see Kai Marchal and Carl K. Y. Shaw, eds., Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World: Reorienting the Political (Lanham, 2017); for a defense of Liu's Straussian position see Xu Jian, ed., Gujin zhizheng yu wenming zijue (Quarrels between the Ancients and the Moderns) (Shanghai, 2010); also see Wang Tao, “Leo Strauss in China,” Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2012, at https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/leo-strauss-in-china (accessed 30 April 2019); Zhang Xu, “Shitelaosi zai zhongguo” (Strauss in China), Jishou University Journal 24 (2003); Dongxian Jiang, “Searching for the Chinese Autonomy: Leo Strauss in the Chinese Context” (unpublished master's thesis, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2014).

⁵Leo Strauss, “Letters to Karl Löwith,” Constellations 16/1 (2009), 84.

⁶See Julian Bourg, “Blame It on Paris,” French Historical Studies 35/1 (2012), 181.

⁷Confronting the scandal of Heidegger's Nazi past, Habermas had undertaken to “think with Heidegger against Heidegger,” which separates the ideational significance of existential philosophy from its ideological applications. See Peter Gordon, “A Lion in Winter,” The Nation, 13 Sept. 2016; John P. McCormick, Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology (Cambridge, 1999), 7–8.