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21. ANAMNESIS (Collected Works of Eric Voegelin) by ERIC VOEGELIN | |
Paperback: 240
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(1990-03-01)
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22. Voegelin Recollected: Conversations on a Life (Eric Voegelin Institute Series in Political Philosophy) (ERIC VOEGELIN INST SERIES) by Barry Cooper | |
Hardcover: 304
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(2007-12-17)
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An Affectionate Memorial |
23. Published Essays: 1953-1965 (The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 11) by Eric Voegelin | |
Hardcover: 288
Pages
(2000-04-24)
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Editorial Review Product Description The period covered by the material published in this volume marks the transition in Eric Voegelin's career from Louisiana to Munich. After twenty years in the United States, in 1958 Voegelin accepted an invitation to fill the political science chair at Ludwig Maximilian University, a position left vacant throughout the Nazi period and last occupied by the famous Max Weber, who had died in 1920. The themes most prominent in the fourteen items reprinted here reflect the concerns of a transition, not only in a scholar's career, and in the momentous shifts in world politics taking place around him, but also in the development of his understanding of the stratification of reality and the attendant demands for a science of human affairs adequate to the challenges posed by the persistent crisis of the West in its latest configurations and by contemporary philosophy. Several of the items herein originated as talks to a specific organization on problems facing German democratization and the development of a market economy amid the ruins of a fragmented culture and infrastructure in a society without historically evolved institutional supports for a satisfactory social and political order. Accordingly, pragmatic matters occupy a central place in a number of these pieces, especially the overriding question of how Germany could move from an illiberal and ideological political order into a modern liberal democratic one. Those accustomed to the theoretical profundity of Voegelin's writings may find welcome relief in the down-to-earth, commonsensical drift of this material addressed, often, to laymen and businessmen. But, of course, the philosophical subject matter lurks everywhere. It finds full expression in several instances as the controlling context of even the least pretentious presentations. One of the attractions of these essays is what the author brings forward as serviceable elementary guideposts under adverse conditions of intellectual disarray, social decay, and turmoil. |
24. From Enlightenment to Revolution by Eric Voegelin | |
Paperback: 316
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(1975)
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25. Eric Voegelin and the Politics of Spiritual Revolt: The Roots of Modern Ideology by Michael Franz | |
Hardcover: 169
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(1992-10)
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Excellent synthesis of Voegelin's political philosophy |
26. Race and State (The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 2) by Eric Voegelin | |
Hardcover: 256
Pages
(1997-11-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Race and State is the second of five books that Eric Voegehn wrote before his emigration to the United States from Austria in 1938. First published in Germany in 1933, the year Hitler came to power, the study was prompted in part by the rise of national socialism during the preceding year. Yet Voegelin neither descended to the level of contemporary debates on race nor dismissed these debates by way of value judgments. Although still young when he wrote this book, Voegelin already demonstrates his singular analytical capacity as well as his ability to put political phenomena into a new perspective. In Part I Voegelin analyzes contemporary race theories by placing the question of race in the context of the more comprehensive philoiophical problem of the interrelationships of body, mind, and soul. He demonstrates the intellectual shortcomings and theoretical fallacies of current theories; more important, he contributes to the development of a modern philosophical anthropology that aims, as Helmuth Plessner put it in a review of Race and State, "at a concept of the human being that does justice to its multilayered existence as a physical, vital, psychic, and intellectual being, without making one of these layers the measure and explanatory basis for the others." In Part II Voegelin deals with race ideas, which he distinguishes from race theories. Race ideas, like other political ideas, form a part of political reality itself, contributing to the formation of social groups and societies. Voegelin shows that the modern race idea is just one "body ideal" among others, such as the tribal state and the Kingdom of Christ, each offering a different symbolic image of community. He traces the rise of the modem race idea, analyzes its function to structure community, and offers an answer to the question of why race ideas became successful in Germany. Voegelin's meticulous sifting of all the Nazi race literature finally arrives at this blunt statement regarding its overall validity: "In order to preclude even the slightest possibility of a misunderstanding, let us again point out emphatically that the contrasting descriptions of the Semitic and the Aryan, the Jewish and the German character . . . contain little that is true about the nature of Jewishness." |
27. The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 29: Selected Correspondence, 1924-1949 (COLLECTED WORKS ERIC VOEGELIN) by Eric Voegelin | |
Hardcover: 784
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(2009-05-10)
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28. Eric Voegelin and the Problem of Christian Political Order (Eric Voegelin Institute Series in Political Philosophy: Studies in Religion and Politics) by Jeffrey C. Herndon | |
Hardcover: 216
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(2007-06-30)
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29. PLATO by ERIC VOEGELIN | |
Paperback: 288
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(2000-08-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Once again available in paperback, Plato is the first half of Eric Voegelin's Plato and Aristotle, the third volume of his five-volume Order and History, which has been hailed throughout the Western world as a monumental accomplishment of modern scholarship. Customer Reviews (2)
Voegelin's "Plato"
Plato as a Referent for Life I met Eric Voegelin once as a graduate student, and asked him, "why'd you publish all this stuff?"I've been digesting his answer ever since. It was "to resist totality and totalitarianism." Particularly, seen from this standpoint, a clear core of this book is his articulation of the Platonic concept of "metaxy," or the in-between character of life.In philosophical terms, this refers most directly and fully to "in-between" the Agathon (e.g., see myth of the cave and the Divided Line in the Republic) and the apeiron (explored most directly and deeply in the Timaeus). For the philosophically uninitiated, it is possible to speak of this in more mundane terms. An unstated corollary of Plato's notion of the "metaxy" is that life is always larger than our categories.From a Socratic/Platonic perspective, this may include but will entail more than the epistemological recognition that every way of seeing is a way of not seeing.The notion of the "metaxy" is most fundamentally a linguistic indice pointing to ontological plenty as the ground of life, albeit lived within bounds of existential scarcity.This is a notion commonly shared by the great civilizations of East and West.The notion of the "metaxy" underscores that life is lived within a tension between the "transcendent" and "immanent" dimensions of being. When we lose track of this tension, as we have to a great extent in the modern world, and subscribe to reductive ideological notions/understandings of life -- and most particularly, when we imagine that we can encapsulate life within the pride of our own "enlightened" categories -- on a political plane, there may be little to constrain the prideful actions of ideologies, irrespective of whether their clothing is Red or Black, or whether it is "left" or "right." Irrespective of the political stripe, repression and murder become "justified" in the pursuit of an ideological aim -- which in Voegelin's philosophical terms is to dissolve the "metaxy" in the usual modernist mode, through immanetizing the transcendent "eschaton." Voegelin's philosophical terms may sound remarkably abstract to the modern ear (recall Robert Dahl's silly review of Voegelin's The New Science of Politics for the American Political Science journal).Facile critiques such as Dahl's typically focus on the unfamiliar language while overlooking the elementary fact that what Voegelin is asking us to do in every aspect of his work is to take a journey that precisely allows us to see the world in terms other than that of our inherited climate of opinion.For those willing to be thorough scholars rather than merely play at it within the context of given suppositions, Voegelin's scholarship offers new vistas and incredibly rich fields of study.His scholarship offers the capacity to reflect upon and act in the world in a substantively grounded mode with implications for every discipline (see e.g., A.G. Ramos' New Science of Organizations). I submit that a key to understanding this text and the greater body of his work at large is to grasp the central significance of the "metaxy" -- not as a concept within the history of ideas -- but as a life referent of perennial relevance to the recurring challenge of resisting sophistic pretensions and the inherited or emergent ideologies of any time and place. This text demands a good deal.You'll develop insights into Plato available no where else.But for Voegelin, such studies were never a matter of antiquarian interest.They were a matter of developing meaningful referents for life.The value in this text is precisely in its yield, capable of resonating throughout your life and offering far more than the initial effort it will require of you. ... Read more |
30. Published Essays: 1922-1928 (Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 7) by Eric Voegelin | |
Hardcover: 376
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(2003-02-13)
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31. ERIC VOEGELIN'S DIALOGUE WITH THE POSTMODERNS: SEARCHING FOR FOUNDATIONS | |
Hardcover: 200
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(2004-12-17)
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collected articles on little-known influential philosopher
Student of Peter Petrakis |
32. Eric Voegelin: Philosopher of History by Eugene Webb | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(1987-10)
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33. Mystery and Myth in the Philosophy of Eric Voegelin by Glenn Hughes | |
Hardcover: 131
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(1993-02)
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34. America and the Political Philosophy of Common Sense (ERIC VOEGELIN INST SERIES) by Scott Philip Segrest | |
Hardcover: 280
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(2009-12-17)
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A core addition to any political or philosophical collection |
35. Selected Book Reviews (Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 13) by Eric Voegelin | |
Hardcover: 232
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(2002-01-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description Over the course of his varied and distinguished academic life, Eric Voegelin was often called upon by review editors of scholarly journals as well as by editors in the popular press to examine, summarize, and critically assess the work of other scholars, of statesmen, and of men of affairs. The contents of the books Voegelin reviewed mirror his changing interests over the years, including questions of method, points of legal philosophy and jurisprudence, and issues of race, war, and the aftermath of war. Of course, he was frequently called upon as well to review standard texts and new editions and monographs across the full range of political science. This collection of Voegelin's reviews amounts to a reflection in miniature of many of the problems Voegelin tackled in his essays, articles, and books from the 1920s until the 1950s, when, owing to the press of other business, he began to decline requests to review the work of others. Some of his reviews are little more than clinical summaries; others are analytic essays. A few are extended engagements with a text or a set of problems. Occasionally, particularly among the later reviews originally written in English, one finds flashes of Voegelin's legendary wit and a restrained impatience with the inadequate approaches or sheer incompetence of others. These book reviews will be of interest to all students and scholars of Eric Voegelin's work. |
36. Published Essays: 1929-1933 (Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 8) by Eric Voegelin | |
Hardcover: 264
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(2003-12-01)
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37. The Theory of Governance and Other Miscellaneous Papers: 1921-1938 (The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 32) by Eric Voegelin | |
Hardcover: 544
Pages
(2004-01-01)
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38. Order and History (Volume 5): In Search of Order (Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 18) by Eric Voegelin | |
Hardcover: 160
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(2000-02-10)
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Editorial Review Product Description In Search of Order brings to a conclusion Eric Voegelin's masterwork, Order and History. Voegelin conceived Order and History as "a philosophical inquiry concerning the principal types of order of human existence in society and history as well as the corresponding symbolic forms." In previous volumes, Voegelin discussed the imperial organizations of the ancient Near East and their existence in the form of the cosmological myth; the revelatory form of existence in history, developed by Moses and the prophets of the Chosen People; the polis, the Hellenic myth, and the development of philosophy as the symbolism of order; and the evolution of the great religions, especially Christianity. This final volume of Order and History is devoted to the elucidation of the experience of transcendence that Voegelin discussed in earlier volumes. He aspires to show in a theoretically acute manner the exact nature of transcendental experiences. Voegelin's philosophical inquiry unfolds in the historical context of the great symbolic enterprise of restating man's humanity under the horizon of the modern sciences and in resistance to the manifold forces of our age that deform human existence. His stature as one of the major philosophical forces of the twentieth century clearly emerges from these concluding pages. In Search of Order deepens and clarifies the meditative movement that Voegelin, now in reflective distance to his own work, sees as having been operative throughout his search. Because of Voegelin's death, on January 19, 1985, In Search of Order is briefer than it otherwise might have been; however, the theoretical presentation that he had set for himself is essentially completed here. Just as this volume serves Voegelin well in his striking analyses of Hegel, Hesiod, and Plato, it will serve as a model for the reader's own efforts in search of order. Customer Reviews (1)
THE LAST WORD ON AN INFLUENTIAL (BUT UNFINISHED) PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY |
39. Herman Dooyeweerd And Eric Voegelin: A Comparative Study (Studies in the History of Philosophy) by David B. Van Heemst | |
Hardcover: 220
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(2005-08-30)
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40. International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Eric Voegelin | |
Paperback: 220
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(1997-07)
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