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Within Germany, Carl Schmitt's status as a political thinker is on a par with Machiavelli and Hobbes. In this study the author seeks to apply Schmitt's thought to modern times as well as extrapolate possibilities for the future.

Cristin (philosophy, U. of Trieste) begins by analyzing the concept of foundation-reason as a different option made by the two German philosophers. He characterizes Heidegger's critique as a reflection on the meaning and essence of reason and the foundation, representing a considerable displacement of them such that infallible theoretical mechanisms and indubitable phenomenal substrata not longer exist. He then discusses what the two think about thinking, and suggests that they may come close to agreeing on what Heidegger calls meditating. Finally he ponders the hypothesis that Heidegger's thinking on Being contains an original mingling of rational and meditating thought that echoes inchoate concepts in Leibniz. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR