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Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition - Explorations in Modern Political Thought (Hardcover, 3rd)
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Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition - Explorations in Modern Political Thought (Hardcover, 3rd)
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Twentieth-century political philosopher Eric Voegelin is best known
as a severe critic of modernity. Much of his work argues that
modernity is a Gnostic revolt against the fundamental structure of
reality. For Voegelin, "Gnosticism" is the belief that human beings
can transform the nature of reality through secret knowledge and
social action, and he considered it the crux of the crisis of
modernity. As Voegelin struggled with this crisis throughout his
career, he never wavered in his judgment that philosophers of the
modern continental tradition were complicit in the Gnostic revolt
of modernity. But while Voegelin's analysis of those philosophers
is at times scathing, his work also bears marks of their influence,
and Voegelin has much more in common with the theorists of the
modern continental tradition than is usually recognized. Eric
Voegelin and the Continental Tradition: Explorations in Modern
Political Thought evaluates this political philosopher--one of the
most original and influential thinkers of our time--by examining
his relationship to the modern continental tradition in philosophy,
from Kant to Derrida. In a compelling introduction, editors Lee
Trepanier and Steven F. McGuire present a review of the
trajectories of Voegelin's thought and outline what often is
portrayed as his derisive critique of modernity. Soon, however,
they begin to unravel the similarities between Voegelin's thought
and the work of other thinkers in the continental tradition. The
subsequent chapters explore these possible connections by examining
Voegelin's intellectual relationship to individual thinkers,
including Hegel, Schelling, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Gadamer.
The essays in this volume go beyond Voegelin's own reading of the
modern philosophers to offer a reevaluation of his relationship to
those thinkers. In Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition,
Voegelin's attempt to grapple with the crisis of modernity becomes
clearer, and his contribution to the modern continental tradition
is illuminated. The book features the work of both established and
emerging Voegelin scholars, and the essays were chosen to present
thoughtful and balanced assessments of both Voegelin's thought and
the ideas of the other thinkers considered. As the first volume to
examine the relationship--and surprising commonalities--between
Voegelin's philosophy and the continental tradition as a whole,
this text will be of interest not only to Voegelin disciples but to
philosophers engaged by continental modernism and all disciplines
of political philosophy.
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