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History of Political Ideas (CW19) - Hellenism, Rome and Early Christianity (Hardcover, New)
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History of Political Ideas (CW19) - Hellenism, Rome and Early Christianity (Hardcover, New)
Series: Collected Works of Eric Voegelin
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Reaching from the decline of the Greek Polis to Saint Augustine,
this first volume of Eric Voegelin's eagerly anticipated History of
Political Ideas fills the gap left between volumes 3 and 4 of Order
and History. The heart of the book is the powerful account of
Apostolic Christianity's political implications and the work of the
early church fathers. Voegelin's consideration of the political
philosophy of Rome and his unique analysis of Greek and early Roman
law are of particular interest. Although History of Political Ideas
was begun as a textbook for Macmillan, Voegelin never intended it
to be a conventional "synthesis." He sought instead an original
comprehensive interpretation, founded on primary materials and
taking into account the most advanced specialist scholarship--or
science as he called it--available to him. Because of this, the
book grew well beyond the confines of an easily marketable college
survey and until now remained unpublished. In the process of
writing it, Voegelin himself outgrew the conceptual frame of a
"History of Political Ideas," turning to compose Order and History
and the other works of his maturity. History of Political Ideas
became the ordered collection of materials from which much of
Voegelin's later theoretical elaboration grew, structured in a
manner that reveals the conceptual intimations of his later
thought. As such, it provides an unparalleled opportunity to
observe the working methods and the intellectual evolution of one
of our century's leading political thinkers. In its embracing
scope, History of Political Ideas contains both analyses of themes
Voegelin developed in his later works and discussions of authors
and ideas to which he did not return or which he later approached
from a different angle and with a different emphasis. In Hellenism,
Rome, and Early Christianity, Voegelin demonstrates that the
"spiritual disintegration" of the Hellenic world inaugurated a long
process of transition in the self- understanding of Mediterranean
and European man. The reflections that emerge remain universal
concerns regarding the order of human existence in society and
history. Although one may come to different conclusions, Voegelin's
responses to the problems of the period suggest avenues of
investigation that are still little traveled.
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