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Transcendence and History - The Search for Ultimacy from Ancient Societies to Postmodernity (Paperback)
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Transcendence and History - The Search for Ultimacy from Ancient Societies to Postmodernity (Paperback)
Series: The Eric Voegelin Institute Series in Political Philosophy
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Transcendence and History is an analysis of what philosopher Eric
Voegelin described as 'the decisive problem of philosophy': the
dilemma of the discovery of transcendent meaning and the impact of
this discovery on human self-understanding. The explicit
recognition and symbolization of transcendent meaning originally
occurred in a few advanced civilizations worldwide during the first
millennium. The world's major religious and wisdom traditions are
built upon the recognition of transcendent meaning, and our own
cultural and linguistic heritage has long since absorbed the
postcosmological division of reality into the two dimensions of
'transcendence' and 'immanence.' But the last three centuries in
the West have seen a growing resistance to the idea of transcendent
meaning; contemporary and 'postmodern' interpretations of the human
situation - both popular and intellectual - indicate a widespread
eclipse of confidence in the truth of transcendence. In
Transcendence and History, Glenn Hughes contributes to the
understanding of transcendent meaning and the problems associated
with it and assists in the philosophical recovery of the legitimacy
of the notion of transcendence. Depending primarily on the
treatments of transcendence found in the writings of
twentieth-century philosophers Eric Voegelin and Bernard Lonergan,
Hughes explores the historical discovery of transcendent meaning
and then examines what it indicates about the structure of history.
Hughes's main focus, however, is on clarifying the problem of
transcendence in relation to historical existence. Addressing both
layreaders and scholars, Hughes applies the insights and analyses
of Voegelin and Lonergan to considerable advantage. Transcendence
and History will be of particular value to those who have grappled
with the notion of transcendence in the study of philosophy,
comparative religion, political theory, history, philosophical
anthropology, and art or poetry. By examining transcendent meaning
as the key factor in the search for ultimate meaning from ancient
societies to the present, the book demonstrates how 'the decisive
problem of philosophy' both illuminates and presents a vital
challenge to contemporary intellectual discourse.
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