THE "CONCEPT OF THE POLITICAL" IN ITS GENESIS THE UNPOLITICAL SCHMITT OF LEO STRAUSS

My article is based on the hermeneutic hypothesis (formulated in 1) that in the "Notes on Carl Schmitt" (1932), Leo Strauss's way of interpreting undergoes a "change" in its method. From the historicistic "orientation" that characterizes the first two sections of the text, Strauss moves in the third section to a phenomenological interpretation aimed at discovering the genesis and moral basis of Schmitt's "concept of the political". This hermeneutic hypothesis allows me to explain: ( 2) the reason why Strauss denies what seems most obvious, namely that Schmitt's Bcji.ilnag- ("affirmation" or "approval") of "the political" is itself of a "political" character; ( 3) what Strauss means, in this context, by "the moral", which, according to him, is at the root of Schmitt's conceptualization of "the political"; ( 4) what the "intention" is of Strauss's interpretation of Schmitt.