This volume contains the most significant pieces of unpublished
writing completed by Eric Voegelin during an important time of his
career. Spanning the period from the early 1960s to the late 1970s,
these selections supplement the body of work Voegelin published
after the appearance of the first three volumes of "Order and
History" in 1956 and 1957. The five texts included here are "What
Is History?" "Anxiety and Reason," "The Eclipse of Reality," "The
Moving Soul," and "The Beginning and the Beyond." In their
introduction to the volume, Thomas A. Hollweck and Paul Caringella
place these writings in their proper context and discuss the ways
in which they reveal clues to the evolution of Voegelin's
thought.
In "What Is History?" Voegelin considers the development of a
transcendent structure of history while simultaneously rejecting
the notion that history can have a universal meaning. "Anxiety and
Reason" focuses on Voegelin's critically important theory of
historiogenesis, which links events in pragmatic history with
legendary and mythical events leading back to the beginning of the
cosmic order. In "The Eclipse of Reality," Voegelin presents a
critique of modernity by analyzing the work of Sartre, Schiller,
Comte, and others. "The Moving Soul"--a "thought experiment"
inspired by a remark Henry Margenau makes in "The Nature of
Physical Reality"--attempts to reformulate the connections between
physics and myth. The most important of these essays is "Me
Beginning and the Beyond." Here Voegelin meditates on the
universality of experience formed by the tension of existence under
God.
Publication of these previously unpublished writings will enable
scholars to trace the genesis of many of the concerns that occupied
Voegelin during a period in which the conception of his main work
was undergoing frequent and perhaps fundamental changes.
General
Imprint: |
Louisiana State University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Collected Works of Eric Voegelin |
Release date: |
September 1990 |
First published: |
September 1990 |
Authors: |
Eric Voegelin
|
Volume editors: |
Thomas Hollweck
• Paul Caringella
|
Dimensions: |
237 x 161 x 33mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
280 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8071-1603-6 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8071-1603-3 |
Barcode: |
9780807116036 |
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