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History of Political Ideas (CW20) - Middle Ages to Aquinas (Hardcover, New)
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History of Political Ideas (CW20) - Middle Ages to Aquinas (Hardcover, New)
Series: Collected Works of Eric Voegelin
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Voegelin's magisterial account of medieval political thought opens
with a survey of the structure of the period and continues with an
analysis of the Germanic invasions, the fall of Rome, and the rise
of empire and monastic Christianity. The political implications of
Christianity and philosophy in the period are elaborated in
chapters devoted to John of Salisbury, Joachim of Flora (Fiore),
Frederick II, Siger de Brabant, Francis of Assisi, Roman law, and
climaxing in a remarkable study of Saint Thomas Aquinas's mighty
thirteenth-century synthesis. Although History of Political Ideas
was begun as a textbook for Macmillan, Voegelin never intended it
to be a conventional chronological account. 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survey and until now remained unpublished.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. The Middle
Ages to Aquinas has withstood the test of time. What makes it still
highly valuable is its thoroughly revisionist approach, cutting
through all the convenient cliches and generalizations and seeking
to establish the experiential underpinnings that typified the
medieval period.
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