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Race and State (CW2) (Hardcover)
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Race and State (CW2) (Hardcover)
Series: Collected Works of Eric Voegelin
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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.
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