The Eric Voegelin Reader

Politics, History, Consciousness
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-8262-2289-3
Verlag: University of Missouri Press

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Eric Voegelin (1901–1985) was one of the most original philosophers of our time, working throughout his life to account for the endemic political violence of the twentieth century, in an effort variously referred to as a philosophy of politics, history, or consciousness. Drawing from the University of Missouri Press’s thirty-four-volume edition of his collected works, Charles Embry and Glenn Hughes have assembled a selection of Voegelin’s representative writings, satisfying the need for a single volume that can serve as a general introduction to his philosophy. The selection demonstrates the range and creativity of Voegelin’s thought, including writings that show his thinking as it developed historically in his long search for order in human society.

The Eric Voegelin Reader will be welcomed by students of political philosophy, political science, philosophy of history, theology, and other fields, including those who are unfamiliar with Voegelin’s difficult, but exciting and stimulating, thought. The editors have provided a short introduction and situate each selection in the context of Voegelin’s overall work.

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Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- The Eric Voegelin Reader
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PROLOGUE
- PART ONE
- Intellectual Biography
- I. CW 34 Autobiographical Reflections (1973): Selections
- Chapter 10: American Influence
- Chapter 11: Concerning the Year in France
- Chapter 12: Return to Vienna
- Chapter 13: Anschluss and Emigration
- II. CW 5 The Political Religions (Second edition, 1939): Selection
- Preface
- III. CW 34 Autobiographical Reflections (1973): Selection
- Chapter 22: Why Philosophize? To Recapture Reality!
- PART TWO
- The Philosophical Science of Politics
- I. CW 5 The New Science of Politics (1952): Selections
- Introduction, §§1–2
- Editors’ Summary of Chapter One
- Chapter 2: Representation and Truth, §§1–6, 9
- Chapter 3: The Struggle for Representation in the Roman Empire, §1
- II. CW 11 Necessary Moral Bases for Communication in a Democracy (1956)
- III. CW 11 The Good Society—from Industrial Society in Search of Reason (1963)
- IV. CW 11 World-Empire and the Unity of Mankind (1962)
- PART THREE
- Philosophizing in Modernity
- I. CW 11 In Search of the Ground (1965)
- II. CW 12 On Debate and Existence (1967)
- III. CW 12 Immortality: Experience and Symbol (1967)
- PART FOUR
- Philosophy and the Open Soul: Consciousness, Reason, and Divine Reality
- I. CW 12 Remembrance of Things Past (1978): Excerpt
- II. CW 12 Equivalences of Experience and Symbolization in History (1970)
- III. CW 12 Reason: The Classic Experience (1974)
- IV. CW 12 The Gospel and Culture (1971)
- PART FIVE
- Philosophy of History
- I. CW 14 Israel and Revelation (1956): Selections
- Preface
- Introduction: The Symbolization of Order
- II. CW 15 The World of the Polis (1957): Selection
- Introduction: Mankind and History (excerpts)
- III. CW 17 The Ecumenic Age (1974): Selection
- Introduction (excerpts)
- IV. CW 18 In Search of Order (1987): Selection
- Chapter One: The Beginning of the Beginning
- EPILOGUE
- FURTHER READINGS IN ERIC VOEGELIN
- SUGGESTED READINGS ON ERIC VOEGELIN
- INDEX