Politics, order, and history : essays on the work of Eric Voegelin /: essays on the work of Eric Voegelin. (2001)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Glenn Hughes, Stephen A. McKnight, and Geoffrey L. Price.
• Other Names: McKnight, Stephen A, 1944-; Hughes, Glenn, 1951-; Price, Geoffrey L, 1942-
• Contents: Voegelin's Political Religions in the contemporary political order / Peter J. Opitz. -- The experience of limitation: political form and science of law in the early writings of Eric Voegelin / Sandro Chignola. -- National socialism as political religion and apocalyptic worldview / Klaus Vondung. -- The religious dimension in the works of Dietrich Eckart, Joseph Goebbels, Alfred Rosenberg and Adolf Hitler / Claus-Ekkehard Bärsch. -- Political reality and the life-world: the correspondence between Eric Voegelin and Alfred Schütz, 1938-59 / Gilbert Weiss. -- The Cold War, the decline of the west and the purpose of 'containment': the political philosophy of George F. Kennan / Stefan Rossbach. -- Recovery from metastatic consciousness: Voegelin and Jeremiah / Geoffrey L. Price. -- Quebec nationalism and Canadian politics in light of Voegelin's Political Religions / Barry Cooper. -- Axial age sectarianism and the Antinomies of modernity / S.N. Eisenstadt. -- Order and History as a response to the theoretical and methodological problems confronting historians in the twentieth century / Stephen A. McKnight. Revisiting Voegelin's Israel and Revelation after twenty-five years / Bernhard W. Anderson. -- Voegelin's Israel and Revelation: some observations / Moshe Idel. -- The significance of Plato's Timaeus and Critias in Eric Voegelin's philosophy / Zdravko Planinc. -- 'Voegelin not mysterious': a response to Zdravko Planinc / Terry Barker and Lawrence Schmidt. -- Eric Voegelin and the essence of the problem: the question of divine-human attunement in Plato's Symposium / M.W. Sinnett. -- 'The gospel movement': pulls and counterpulls in Voegelin's interpretation of Christ and Christianity / William M. Thompson. -- Eric Voegelin and the New Testament: developments, problems and challenges / Michael P. Morrissey. -- Eric Voegelin and literary theory / Eugene Webb. -- Tragedy and the polis in Eric Voegelin's Order and History / Jack E. Trotter. -- Milton's chaos and the experience of the Apeiron / Robert A. Watson. -- Voegelin and the study of literature: restoring sense to senseless sounds / James Babin.
• Publisher Details: London : Sheffield Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Extent: 1 online resource (656 pages)
• Subjects: 193; Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century; Political science; Church and state; History -- Philosophy; Church and state; History -- Philosophy; Philosophy, Modern; Political science; Werk; Science politique; Histoire -- Philosophie; Aufsatzsammlung; Politische Wissenschaft
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780567347381; 0567347389
• Related ISBNs: 9781841271590
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