The Politics of the Soul

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The editor has done an excellent job . . . blending the mix together in such a way as to allow the general reader access to a scholarly world that is both complex and fascinating. . . . The most thorough canvas of the core issue of Voegelin's political philosophy by an array of experts to be published to date. -- Ellis Sandoz, director, Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies, Louisiana State University The authors of this collction of eight essays will be familiar to scholars of Voegelin's work. All eight are established and competent interpreters of his work, as this volume attests. It has a uniform clarity and quality not always found in published collections. The editor's ordering of the topics makes good sence, and his introduction is helpful. "Religious experience" may have an esoteric ring to modern ears, but this collection gives a significant introductory glimpse into Voegelin's work as a whole, because the question of religious experienceor experience of transcendence was fundamental to Voegelin's understanding of the basics of political order and disorder. Addressing quite different topics of analysis, these essays separately and together show how Voegelin's interpretation of religious experience fits intoand anchors his larger project. * Journal of Religion *