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

Michael Franz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

376 Seiten

2024
St Augustine's Press (Verlag)
978-1-58731-236-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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 Franz
Chapter 1: Voegelin’s “The German University and the Order of German Society: A Reconsideration of the Nazi Era" – Barry Cooper
Chapter 2: Voegelin’s On Debate and Existence” – Steven F. McGuire
Chapter 3: Voegelin’s "Immortality: Experience and Symbol" – Henrik Syse
Chapter 4: Voegelin’s “Configurations of History” – Paul Kidder
Chapter 5: Voegelin’s “Equivalences of Experience and Symbolization in History” – Glenn Hughes
Chapter 6: Voegelin‘s “On Henry James’s Turn of the Screw” – Charles R. Embry
Chapter 7: Voegelin’s “The Gospel and Culture” – Thomas Heilke
Chapter 8: Voegelin’s “On Hegel: A Study in Sorcery” – David Walsh
Chapter 9: Voegelin’s “On Classical Studies” – Julianne M. Romanello
Chapter 10: Voegelin’s “Reason: The Classic Experience” – William Petropulos
Chapter 11: Voegelin’s “Response to Professor Altizer” – Paulette Kidder
Chapter 12: Voegelin’s “Remembrance of Things Past” – Paul Kidder
Chapter 13: Voegelin’s "Wisdom and the Magic of the Extreme: A Meditation” – Michael Franz
Chapter 14: Voegelin’s “Quod Deus Dicitur” — Thomas Heilke with Paul Caringella
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.09.2023
Verlagsort	Indiana
Sprache	englisch
Maße	6 x 9 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-58731-236-0 / 1587312360
ISBN-13	978-1-58731-236-6 / 9781587312366
Zustand	Neuware