Politics, Order and History: Essays on the Work of Eric Voegelin
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Overview
Eric Voegelin (1905 – 1985) was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable thinkers, whose writings cover political science, philosophy, history, sociology, theology and religion. This book presents a number of critical reviews and essays on key themes and issues in the work of Eric Voegelin’s work, embracing international relations, classical philosophy, social history, Christology and literary theory. The volume provides for those both familiar and unfamiliar with his work a useful evaluation of Voegelin’s contribution to the Western intellectual tradition and to many of its major disciplines.
Areas covered include “Political Religions” (manifestations in Nazi Germany and in contemporary European and North American nationalism); contemporary assessments of Plato and Aristotle in the reading of Eric Voegelin; questions and developments from Voegelin's interpretations of New Testament studies and Christology; questions and developments from Voegelin's Old Testament studies, including Israel and Revelation; Revelation and order in axial-age societies; and Voegelin in contrast with contemporary literary theory, including critical readings of Milton and Greek tragedy.
Top Highlights
“not as intracosmic, but as separate from the existent things in the cosmos” (Page 270)
“an ever greater preoccupation with passionate intensity” (Page 525)
“a fleeting moment between creation and dissolution” (Page 524)
“Here, Eros is a power that pervades the cosmos and that effects, essentially without contingency, and certainly without human agency, an ordering of human life and society.” (Page 416)
“The cosmological empires and the cosmological style of truth break down for both pragmatic and experiential reasons” (Page 270)
Product Details
- Title: Politics, Order and History: Essays on the Work of Eric Voegelin
- Editors: Glenn Hughes, Stephen McKnight, and Geoffrey L. Price
- Publisher: Sheffield
- Publication Date: 2001
- Pages: 656
About the Editors
Glenn Hughes is Associate Professor of Philosophy, St Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas.
Stephen McKnight is Professor of European Intellectual and Cultural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
Dr. Geoffrey L. Price is Director, Centre for Voegelin Studies, University of Manchester, UK.