Eric Voegelin Today: Voegelin's Political Thought in the 21st Century
This book analyzes Eric Voegelin’s scholarly works from the 1950s and early 1960s and examines the ways in which these works are relevant to the twenty-first century political environment. The collection of essays evaluated in this book cover a wide array of topics that were of great curiosity sixty years ago and still relevant in today’s society. The authors in this volume demonstrate that Voegelin’s erudition on topics such as revolutionary change, ideological fervor, industrialization, globalism, and the place for reason and how it may be cultivated in complex times remains as meaningful today as it was then.
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Eric Voegelin Today: Voegelin's Political Thought in the 21st Century
This book analyzes Eric Voegelin’s scholarly works from the 1950s and early 1960s and examines the ways in which these works are relevant to the twenty-first century political environment. The collection of essays evaluated in this book cover a wide array of topics that were of great curiosity sixty years ago and still relevant in today’s society. The authors in this volume demonstrate that Voegelin’s erudition on topics such as revolutionary change, ideological fervor, industrialization, globalism, and the place for reason and how it may be cultivated in complex times remains as meaningful today as it was then.
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This book analyzes Eric Voegelin’s scholarly works from the 1950s and early 1960s and examines the ways in which these works are relevant to the twenty-first century political environment. The collection of essays evaluated in this book cover a wide array of topics that were of great curiosity sixty years ago and still relevant in today’s society. The authors in this volume demonstrate that Voegelin’s erudition on topics such as revolutionary change, ideological fervor, industrialization, globalism, and the place for reason and how it may be cultivated in complex times remains as meaningful today as it was then.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781498596640
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 07/25/2019
Series: Political Theory for Today
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 254
File size: 650 KB

About the Author

Scott Robinson is assistant professor of political science at Houston Baptist University.

Lee Trepanier is professor of political science at Saginaw Valley State University.

David Whitney is associate professor of political science at Nicholls State University
Lee Trepanier, Assumption University, USA

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Rethinking Eric Voegelin’s Interpretation of Liberalism and Its History

David D. Corey

Chapter 2: The Necessity of Moral Communication in a Pluralistic Political Environment

Scott Robinson

Chapter 3: Defenders of Democracy: Freedom and Responsibility in America Today

Scott Robinson

Chapter 4: The Origins of Scientism: Revisited

David N. Whitney

Chapter 5: Voegelin, Rawls, and the Persistence of Liberal Civil Theology

Grant Havers

Chapter 6: The Comparative Politics of Eric Voegelin

Lee Trepanier

Chapter 7: The Dream of the Caliphate and the Loss of Reality: An Application of Eric Voegelin’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism” and “In Search of the Ground”

Scott Philip Segrest

Chapter 8: “The Five Ways of World-Empire”

Christopher S. Morrissey

Chapter 9: Eric Voegelin’s 1944 “Political Theory and the Pattern of General History”: An Account from the Biography of a Philosophizing Consciousness

Nathan Harter
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