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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.
This second volume of Eric Voegelin's miscellaneous papers contains
unpublished writings from the time of his forced emigration from
Austria in 1938 until his death in 1985. The volume's focus is on
dialogue and discussion, presenting Voegelin in the role of
lecturer, discussant, and respondent. "The Drama of Humanity"
presents the Walter Turner Candler Lectures delivered in four parts
at Emory University in 1967. This text, a small book in itself,
addresses the themes of "The Contemporary Situation," "Man in the
Cosmos," "The Epiphany of Man," and "Man in Revolt," providing the
reader with a good introduction to Voegelin's later work. Another
extensive text included in this volume is "Conversations with Eric
Voegelin at the Thomas More Institute" in Montreal. These exchanges
include lectures and discussions given by Voegelin between 1967 and
1976. A number of other sections offer insight into Voegelin's
intellectual development over a period of forty years. These
include the complete "Foreword" to the second edition of The
Political Religions, which is published here for the first time;
"Notes on T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets," the "Cycle Theory and
Disintegrations," "What Is Political Theory?" "The Spiritual and
Political Future of the Western World," "Notes on 'Civilization and
Foreign Affairs, '" "Structures of Consciousness," "The Beyond and
Its Parousia," and the 1983 "Responses at the Panel Discussion of
'The Beginning of the Beginning.'" Several lengthy excerpts from
conference dialogues with other scholars are also included: "The
West and the Meaning of Industrial Society," "Natural Law in
Political Theory," and "The Human Being in Political Institutions."
Volume 33 concludes withVoegelin's "Autobiographical Statement at
the Age of Eighty-Two," his last public utterance on the course of
his life and his life's work. By choosing dialogue as the focus of
this volume, Petropulos and Weiss are able to show not only the
extent to which Voegelin engaged in an exchange of ideas but also
his abiding concern for the practical and theoretical conditions
necessary in order for this exchange to take place.
This first of two volumes of Voegelin's miscellaneous papers brings
together crucial writings, published for the first time, from the
early, formative period of this scholar's thought. The book begins
with Voegelin's dissertation on sociological method, completed
under the direction of Othmar Spann and Hans Kelsen at the
University of Vienna in 1922. It reveals an intimate knowledge of
the writings of Georg Simmel and a skillful use of insights gained
from Edmund Husserl's Logical Investigations and Ideas. The
dissertation, and other smaller pieces written at this time,
addresses problems that remained of great importance to Voegelin
throughout his life: the relation of insight to language, the
structure of the human being, and the human's spiritual center.
They disclose both Voegelin's theoretical reference points during
these early years, including the thought of Henri Bergson, Othmar
Spann, Georg Simmel, and Edmund Husserl, as well the young
scholar's remarkably independent approach to theoretical problems.
Moreover, this volume includes a work that is fundamental to an
understanding of Voegelin's theoretical development: his extended
study on the ""theory of governance,"" written between 1930 and
1932. It follows the issues that confront political society to
their roots in the soul and in the soul's relationship to the
ground of being. The Theory of Governance and Other Miscellaneous
Papers presents a meditative-exegetic study of texts from
Augustine, Descartes, and Husserl, early examples of the
meditations that became central to Voegelin's later work. Other
essays included in this volume such as ""The Theory of Law"" and
""Political Science as Human Science"" develop these theoretical
insights and refine Voegelin's methodological tools. This volume
will be of interest to all scholars of the work of Eric Voegelin
and of the refoundation of political philosophy in the twentieth
century in general.
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