Consciousness and Politics – From Analysis to Meditation in the Late Work of Eric Voegelin

Barry Cooper is professor of political science at the University of Calgary. He has written extensively on Western political philosophy, including several analyses of the work of Eric Voegelin, and on Canadian politics.

• CHAPTER ONE Introduction ( CHAPTER TWO Method: From Political Ideas to the Historicity of Truth CHAPTER THREE Genealogy of the “Gnosticism Thesis” CHAPTER FOUR The Differentiation of Consciousness CHAPTER FIVE Myth and Nature CHAPTER SIX The Problem of Political Reality CHAPTER SEVEN History CHAPTER EIGHT Meditation Conclusion Index