Politics, Order and History
Essays on the Work of Eric Voegelin
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2001
656 pages
978-0-567-34738-1 (ISBN)
Description
This volume brings together critical review papers, many specially commissioned, on key themes and questions in the work of the political scientist, philosopher and religious thinker Eric Voegelin (1901-1985). Areas covered include: (1) Political science: 'Political Religions': manifestations in Nazi Germany and in contemporary European and North American nationalism; (2) International relations: the 'Cold War' in critical perspective; (3) Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle in the reading of Eric Voegelin: contemporary assessments; (4) Sociology: Correspondence of Voegelin and Alfred Schütz; (5) New Testament studies and Christology: questions and developments for Voegelin's interpretations; (6) Old Testament studies: questions and developments from Voegelin's Israel and Revelation; (7) Historical sociology: Revelation and order in axial-age societies; (8) Philosophy of history: Voegelin and Toynbee in contrast; (9) Literary studies: Voegelin in contrast with contemporary literary theory; critical readings of Milton, Greek tragedy.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-567-34738-1 (9780567347381)
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Editors and Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I: DIE POLITISCHEN RELIGIONEN
- Voegelin's Political Religions in the Contemporary Political Order
- The Experience of Limitation: Political Form and Science of Law in the Early Writings of Eric Voegelin
- National Socialism as Political Religion and Apocalyptic Worldview
- The Religious Dimension in the Works of Dietrich Eckart, Joseph Goebbels, Alfred Rosenberg and Adolf Hitler
- Political Reality and the Life-World: The Correspondence Between Eric Voegelin and Alfred Schütz, 1938-59
- Part II: POLITICAL RELIGIONS IN A SECULAR AGE
- The Cold War, the Decline of the West and the Purpose of 'Containment': The Political Philosophy of George F. Kennan
- Recovery From Metastatic Consciousness: Voegelin and Jeremiah
- Quebec Nationalism and Canadian Politics in Light of Voegelin's Political Religions
- Axial Age Sectarianism and the Antinomies of Modernity
- Order and History as a Response to the Theoretical and Methodological Problems Confronting Historians in the Twentieth Century
- Part III: ORDER AND HISTORY: THEMES AND VARIATIONS
- Revisiting Voegelin's Israel and Revelation after Twenty-five Years
- Voegelin's Israel and Revelation: Some Observations
- The Significance of Plato's Timaeus and Critias in Eric Voegelin's Philosophy
- 'Voegelin Not Mysterious': A Response to Zdravko Planinc's 'The Significance of Plato's Timaeus and Critias in Eric Voegelin's Philosophy'
- Eric Voegelin and the Essence of the Problem: The Question of Divine-Human Attunement in Plato's Symposium
- 'The Gospel Movement': Pulls and Counterpulls in Voegelin's Interpretation of Christ and Christianity
- Eric Voegelin and the New Testament: Developments, Problems and Challenges
- Part IV: VOEGELIN'S IMPLICIT' THEORY OF LITERARY AND MODERN CULTURAL CRITICISM
- Eric Voegelin and Literary Theory
- Tragedy and the Polis in Eric Voegelin's Order and History
- Milton's Chaos and the Experience of the Apeiron
- Voegelin and the Study of Literature: Restoring Sense to Senseless Sounds
- Bibliography
- Index
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