Eric Voegelin`s Late Meditations and Essays – Critical Commentary Companions

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Eric Voegelin (1901–1985) is widely regarded as one of the greatest political philosophers of the 20th century, yet adequate understanding of his writings stands as a challenge for current and future generations. Voegelin’s thought continued to develop at a rapid pace during the last two decades of his life, and as Ellis Sandoz has written, his work found “not only its final but its most profound expression” during this period. Voegelin’s fame stemmed mostly from his many books and the laudatory review articles published in response to them, but he was “preeminently an essayist,” as Sandoz observes. The meditative analyses and essays written in the culminating phase of Voegelin’s career not only expand and deepen his work as a whole, but also revise central components of it in ways that compel reconsideration of even his most widely read texts.Voegelin’s books gave rise to a vast secondary literature that continues to grow, yet the exceptionally impactful late essays and meditative works have never received the scholarly commentaries they deserve because they were published originally as journal articles or chapters in edited collections. This volume remedies that shortcoming with 14 critical analyses that elucidate the late essays while also addressing their implications for the entirety of Voegelin’s thought. The commentaries will prove invaluable to students and scholars in political science, philosophy, history, theology, and other disciplines, serving as a companion piece to the singularly important Vol. 12 of Voegelin’s Collected Works, Published Essays 1966–1985.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-01-12
Mått6 x 9 x 26 mm
Vikt568 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor376
FörlagSt Augustine's Press
ISBN9781587312366

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Michael Franz is Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Maryland. He is the author of Eric Voegelin and the Politics of Spiritual Revolt: The Roots of Modern Ideology, and editor of The Ecumenic Age, Vol. IV of Voegelin’s Order and History, Vol. 17 in The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin. His research and teaching focus on political theory and the philosophy of history, with special emphasis on political violence and terrorism engendered by disordered spirituality and ideological consciousness.

Introduction: Michael FranzChapter 1: Voegelin’s “The German University and the Order of German Society: A Reconsideration of the Nazi Era" – Barry CooperChapter 2: Voegelin’s On Debate and Existence” – Steven F. McGuireChapter 3: Voegelin’s "Immortality: Experience and Symbol" – Henrik SyseChapter 4: Voegelin’s “Configurations of History” – Paul KidderChapter 5: Voegelin’s “Equivalences of Experience and Symbolization in History” – Glenn HughesChapter 6: Voegelin‘s “On Henry James’s Turn of the Screw” – Charles R. EmbryChapter 7: Voegelin’s “The Gospel and Culture” – Thomas HeilkeChapter 8: Voegelin’s “On Hegel: A Study in Sorcery” – David WalshChapter 9: Voegelin’s “On Classical Studies” – Julianne M. RomanelloChapter 10: Voegelin’s “Reason: The Classic Experience” – William PetropulosChapter 11: Voegelin’s “Response to Professor Altizer” – Paulette KidderChapter 12: Voegelin’s “Remembrance of Things Past” – Paul KidderChapter 13: Voegelin’s "Wisdom and the Magic of the Extreme: A Meditation” – Michael FranzChapter 14: Voegelin’s “Quod Deus Dicitur” — Thomas Heilke with Paul CaringellaIndex

Eric Voegelin’s life work is best understood as a “zetema,” a philosopher’s life-long quest for truth, one that underwent substantial changes during the final phase of his quest. As Michael Franz explains in his Introduction, Voegelin’s last essays have not received the critical attention they deserve, yet they contain the most refined formulations of his thought. Franz has succeeded in enlisting scholars thoroughly aquatinted with Voegelin’s voluminous publications who are well qualified to analyze the theoretical advances in these last essays and relate them to the better-known, previous stages of his exploration of orders and disorders of the soul and of society.—Stephen A. McKnight, Professor Emeritus of European Intellectual and Cultural History, University of Florida