What is History? and Other Late Unpublished Writings

What is History? and Other Late Unpublished Writings

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  • Author: Eric Voegelin
  • Publisher: University of Missouri Press
  • ISBN: 9780807116036
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 310

This volume contains the most significant pieces of unpublished writing completed by Eric Voegelin during an important time of his career. Spanning the period from the early 1960s to the late 1970s, these selections supplement the body of work Voegelin published after the appearance of the first three volumes of Order and History in 1956 and 1957. The five texts included here are "What Is History?" "Anxiety and Reason," "The Eclipse of Reality," "The Moving Soul," and "The Beginning and the Beyond." In their introduction to the volume, Thomas A. Hollweck and Paul Caringella place these writings in their proper context and discuss the ways in which they reveal clues to the evolution of Voegelin's thought. In "What Is History?" Voegelin considers the development of a transcendent structure of history while simultaneously rejecting the notion that history can have a universal meaning. "Anxiety and Reason" focuses on Voegelin's critically important theory of historiogenesis, which links events in pragmatic history with legendary and mythical events leading back to the beginning of the cosmic order. In "The Eclipse of Reality," Voegelin presents a critique of modernity by analyzing the work of Sartre, Schiller, Comte, and others. "The Moving Soul"--a "thought experiment" inspired by a remark Henry Margenau makes in The Nature of Physical Reality--attempts to reformulate the connections between physics and myth. The most important of these essays is "Me Beginning and the Beyond." Here Voegelin meditates on the universality of experience formed by the tension of existence under God. Publication of these previously unpublished writings will enable scholars to trace the genesis of many of the concerns that occupied Voegelin during a period in which the conception of his main work was undergoing frequent and perhaps fundamental changes.


The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin: What is history? and other late unpublished writings

The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin: What is history? and other late unpublished writings

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  • Author: Eric Voegelin
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  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0


The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin

The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin

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  • Author: Eric Voegelin
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  • ISBN: 9780807115954
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  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 256


History of Political Ideas

History of Political Ideas

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  • Author: Eric Voegelin
  • Publisher: University of Missouri Press
  • ISBN: 9780826211262
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 304

Reaching from the decline of the Greek Polis to Saint Augustine, Voegelin demonstrates that the spiritual disintegration of the Hellenic world inaugurated a long process of transition in the self- understanding of Mediterranean and European man. At the heart of his interpretation is the powerful account of Apostolic Christianity's political implications and the work of the early church fathers. Voegelin's consideration of the political philosophy of Rome and his unique analysis of Greek and early Roman law are of particular interest. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


The Collected Works

The Collected Works

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  • Author: Eric Voegelin
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  • ISBN: 9780807116036
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  • Languages : en
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The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin: Modernity without restraint

The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin: Modernity without restraint

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  • Author: Eric Voegelin
  • Publisher: University of Missouri Press
  • ISBN: 0826261930
  • Category : Church and state
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 348


History's Fools

History's Fools

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  • Author: David Martin Jones
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0197539963
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 441

The end of the Cold War announced a new world order. Liberal democracy prevailed, ideological conflict abated, and world politics set off for the promised land of a secular, cosmopolitan, market-friendly end of history. Or so it seemed. Thirty years later, this unipolar worldview-- premised on shared values, open markets, open borders and abstract social justice--lies in tatters. What happened? David Martin Jones examines the progressive ideas behind liberal Western practice since the end of the twentieth century, at home and abroad. This mentality, he argues, took an excessively long view of the future and a short view of the past, abandoning politics in favour of ideas, and failing to address or understand rejection of liberal norms by non-Western 'others'. He explores the inevitable consequences of this liberal hubris: political and economic confusion, with the chaotic results we have seen. Finally, he advocates a return to more sceptical political thinking-- with prudent statecraft abroad, and defence of political order at home--in order to rescue the West from its widely advertised demise. History's Fools is a timely account of the failed project to shape the world in the West's image, and an incisive call for a return to 'true' politics.


History of Political Ideas, Volume 8

History of Political Ideas, Volume 8

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  • Author: Eric Voegelin
  • Publisher: University of Missouri Press
  • ISBN: 0826261906
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 513


Disturbing Revelation: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Bible

Disturbing Revelation: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Bible

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  • Author: John J. Ranieri
  • Publisher: University of Missouri Press
  • ISBN: 0826261396
  • Category : Bible
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 290

"Ranieri shows how Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin drew on biblical texts in their philosophies to explore the relationship between religion, politics, and violence while maintaining a deep ambivalence about the Bible's vision of life and its influence on politics and finally compares their thought with that of René Girard"--Provided by publisher.


Spirituality in the Writings of Etty Hillesum

Spirituality in the Writings of Etty Hillesum

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  • Author: Klaas Smelik
  • Publisher: BRILL
  • ISBN: 9004188592
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 516

Drawing on Etty Hillesum’s writings, this book offers a comprehensive account of international scholarship on the life, works and vision of the Dutch Jewish writer Etty Hillesum, whose life was shaped by the totalitarian Nazi-regime, and who lived a courageous spirituality in the darkest period of the twentieth century.