Published essays, 1953-1965
"This period covered by the material published in this volume marks the transition in Eric Voegelin's career from Louisiana to Munich. After twenty years in the United States, in 1958 Voegelin accepted an invitation to fill the political science chair at Ludwig Maximilian University, a position left vacant throughout the Nazi period and last occupied by the famous Max Weber, who had died in 1920." "The themes most prominent in the fourteen items reprinted here reflect the concerns of a transiti…
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- Full title :Published essays, 1953-1965 / Eric Voegelin ; edited with an introduction by Ellis Sandoz.
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"This period covered by the material published in this volume marks the transition in Eric Voegelin's career from Louisiana to Munich. After twenty years in the United States, in 1958 Voegelin accepted an invitation to fill the political science chair at Ludwig Maximilian University, a position left vacant throughout the Nazi period and last occupied by the famous Max Weber, who had died in 1920." "The themes most prominent in the fourteen items reprinted here reflect the concerns of a transition, not only in a scholar's career, and in the momentous shifts in world politics taking place around him, but also in the development of his understanding of the stratification of reality and the attendant demands for a science of human affairs adequate to the challenges posed by the persistent crisis of the West in its latest configurations and by contemporary philosophy." "Several of the items herein originated as talks to a specific organization on problems facing German democratization and the development of a market economy amid the ruins of a fragmented culture and infrastructure in a society without historically evolved institutional supports for a satisfactory social and political order. Accordingly, pragmatic matters occupy a central place in a number of these pieces, especially the overriding question of how Germany could move from an illiberal and ideological political order into a modern liberal democratic one."--Jacket
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- Publication Date:©2000.
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- Publisher(s):University of Missouri Press
- Place of Publication:Columbia, Mo
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2000.
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- Description:ix, 273 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0826212824, 9780826212825
- oclc:ocm43763100
- LC Classification:B3354
- Dewey Decimal:320
Table of Contents
The origins of totalitarianism (1953). -- The Oxford political philosophers (1953). -- Necessary moral bases for communication in a democracy (1956). -- Democracy in the new Europe (1959) -- Freedom and responsibility in economy and democracy (1960). -- Liberalism and its history (1960). -- Toynbee's History as a search for truth (1961). -- Prospects of Western civilization (1961). -- World-empire and the unity of mankind (1962). -- History and gnosis (1965). -- Industrial society in search of reason (1963). -- Man in society and history (1964). -- Democracy and industrial society (1964). -- In search of the ground (1965).
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