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Politics, Order and History : Essays on the Work of Eric Voegelin.

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'':...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hughes, Glenn
Otros Autores: McKnight, Stephen, Price, Geoffrey
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2001.
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  • 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 AGEThe 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 YearsVoegelin''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 ChallengesPart 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.