In this collection of essays, which covers the years from 1934
to1939, we see Eric Voegelin in the role of both scholar and public
intellectual in Vienna until he was forced to flee the Nazi terror
that descended on Austria in 1938. Revealing the broad spectrum of
thinking and scientific study of this relatively young scholar,
Voegelin's essays range from Austrian politics, Austrian
constitutional history, and European racism to questions of the
formation and expression of public opinion, theories of
administrative law, and the role of political science in public
university education. Several essays serve as useful commentaries
on, elaborations of, or synopses of arguments Voegelin made in the
five books he had published between 1928 and 1938.
Within these topical headings, there are multiple thematic
threads that wind their way through these essays and that remain of
interest to contemporary readers. Thirteen of the pieces contained
in this collection are short items that Voegelin published in trade
journals and newspapers, of which nine appeared in the "Wiener
Zeitung" in 1934 and the "Neue Freie Presse" in 1937. In these we
see two brief periods in which Voegelin played the role of public
intellectual not only as a lecturer but also in print.
These essays will be of interest to a wide range of scholars,
including constitutional historians, historians of political
science, political theorists, and students of Voegelin's later
work.
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