Politics, Order and History Essays on the Work of Eric Voegelin

by Hughes, Glenn; McKnight, Stephen; Price, Geoffrey

• ISBN13: 9781841271590
• ISBN10: 1841271594
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Pr

Summary

This volume brings together critical review papers, many specially commissioned, on key themes and questions in the work of the political scientist, philosopher and religious thinker Eric Voegelin (1901-1985). Areas covered include: (1) Political science: 'Political Religions': manifestations in Nazi Germany and in contemporary European and North American nationalism; (2) International relations: the 'Cold War' in critical perspective; (3) Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle in the reading of Eric Voegelin: contemporary assessments; (4) Sociology: Correspondence of Voegelin and Alfred Schütz; (5) New Testament studies and Christology: questions and developments for Voegelin's interpretations; (6) Old Testament studies: questions and developments from Voegelin's Israel and Revelation; (7) Historical sociology: Revelation and order in axial-age societies; (8) Philosophy of history: Voegelin and Toynbee in contrast; (9) Literary studies: Voegelin in contrast with contemporary literary theory; critical readings of Milton, Greek tragedy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	9	(2)
Notes on Editors and Contributors	11	(6)
Introduction	17	(31)
Stephen A. McKnight
Part I Die Politischen Religionen
Voegelin's Political Religions in the Contemporary Political Order	48	(13)
Peter J. Optiz
The Experience of Limitation: Political Form and Science of Law in the Early Writings of Eric Voegelin	61	(24)
Sandro Chignola
National Socialism as Political Religion and Apocalyptic Worldview	85	(19)
Klaus Vondung
The Religious Dimension in the Works of Dietrich Eckart, Joseph Goebbels, Alfred Rosenberg and Adolf Hitler	104	(21)
Claus-Ekkehard Barsch
Political Reality and the Life-World: The Correspondence Between Eric Voegelin and Alfred Schutz, 1938--59	125	(19)
Gilbert Weiss
Part II Political Religions in a Secular Age
The Cold War, the Decline of the West and the Purpose of `Containment': The Political Philosophy of George F. Kennan	144	(41)
Stefan Rossbach
Recovery From Metastatic Consciousness: Voegelin and Jeremiah	185	(23)
Geoffrey L. Price
Quebec Nationalism and Canadian Politics in Light of Voegelin's Political Religions	208	(25)
Barry Cooper
Axial Age Sectarianism and the Antinomies of Modernity	233	(26)
S.N. Eisenstadt
Order and History as a Response to the Theoretical and Methodological Problems Confronting Historians in the Twentieth Century	259	(25)
Stephen A. McKnight
Part III Order and History: Themes and Variations
Revisiting Voegelin's Israel and Revelation after Twenty-five Years	284	(15)
Bernhard W. Anderson
Voegelin's Israel and Revelation: Some Observations	299	(28)
Moshe Idel
The Significance of Plato's Timaeus and Critias in Eric Voegelin's Philosophy	327	(49)
Zdravko Planinc
`Voegelin Not Mysterious': A Response to Zdravko Planinc's `The Significance of Plato's Timaeus and Critias in Eric Voegelin's Philosophy'	376	(34)
Terry Barker
Lawrence Schmidt
Eric Voegelin and the Essence of the Problem: The Question of Divine--Human Attunement in Plato's Symposium	410	(30)
M.W. Sinnett
`The Gospel Movement': Pulls and Counterpulls in Voegelin's Interpretation of Christ and Christianity	440	(22)
William M. Thompson
Eric Voegelin and the New Testament: Developments, Problems and Challenges	462	(40)
Michael P. Morrissey
Part IV Voegelin's `Implicit' Theory of Literary and Modern Cultural Criticism
Eric Voegelin and Literary Theory	502	(14)
Eugene Webb
Tragedy and the Polis in Eric Voegelin's Order and History	516	(29)
Jack E. Trotter
Milton's Chaos and the Experience of the Apeiron	545	(31)
Robert A. Watson
Voegelin and the Study of Literature: Restoring Sense to Senseless Sounds	576	(32)
James Babin
Bibliography	608	(20)
Index	628