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

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

Hughes, Glenn
Price, Geoffrey
McKnight, Stephen

Hardcover

General Political Science

ISBN10: 1841271594
ISBN13: 9781841271590
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
Published: Jan 1 2001
Pages: 656
Weight: 2.45
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.64 Depth: 9.48
Language: English

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.

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