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Selected Correspondence, 1924-1949 (CW29) (Hardcover)
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Selected Correspondence, 1924-1949 (CW29) (Hardcover)
Series: Collected Works of Eric Voegelin
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This volume contains selected correspondence written by Eric
Voegelin during the period 1924 to 1949.The Editorial Board of the
"Collected Works of Eric Voegelin" agreed from the beginning that a
representative number of Voegelin's letters should complete the
edition in an attempt to provide the reader with insights into
Voegelin's intellectual life and into the fundamental experiences
that went into shaping the growth of his personality. It was the
board's aim to select material in accordance with the guidelines
that Voegelin himself laid down as fundamental to a hermeneutical
understanding of spiritual reality. Voegelin wrote that, in
studying a thinker, one must try to elucidate the biographical
""radices "of philosophizing." He said that one must penetrate to
the "experiences that impel him] toward reflection, and do so
because they have excited consciousness to the 'awe' of existence."
Voegelin made these remarks on the occasion of conducting anamnetic
experiments, which reveal the motivational center of his own life.
At the core of Voegelin's concept of political science is a noetic
interpretation of man, society, and history that confronts the
conception of order prevalent in the surrounding society with the
criteria of the critical knowledge of order. From the 1930s onward,
Voegelin labored to find a satisfactory self-reflexive explication
of the principles of a contemplative understanding of human
reality, one grounded in the spiritual experience of reason.
Naturally, it is the published word that determines a thinker's
scholarly stature. But Voegelin's letters also grant insight into
the development of his thought; document the author's struggle with
himself, the "telos "of his scholarship; and reveal an often
involuntary conflict with his life-world. These letters shed light
on an ongoing and open-ended thought process from which a
multifaceted, sometimes apparently contradictory, work emerged.
Because of the enormous number of letters that Voegelin wrote in
his later years--now published in the second volume of the
"Selected Correspondence "(Volume 30 of the" Collected Works")--
the editors agreed that these bookswould contain only letters
"from" Eric Voegelin. While such a selection of letters cannot
provide the completeness that the publication of both dialogue
partners would provide, nevertheless they reveal Voegelin's ongoing
reflection on human affairs. They reveal patterns of thought and
their development in the atmosphere of intimate communication that
personal and intellectual "elective affinities" produce, and they
also disclose the silences that accompany such discourse. This
volume is certain to interest all readers concerned with political
theory and with better understanding of Voegelin's intellectual
pilgrimage from his earliest academic years to his emergence as one
of the most significant philosophers of our time.
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