Published Essays: 1940-1952
Published Essays: 1940-1952
副标题: (Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 10)
ISBN: 9780826213044
出版社: University of Missouri Press
出版年: October 2000
页数: 288pages
定价: $39.95
装帧: Hardcover
内容简介
Published Essays, 1940-1952, includes some of Eric Voegelin's most provocative and interesting essays. Containing his first publications after he fled Vienna and settled in the United States following Hitler's annexation of Austria, this volume provides eyewitness commentary on the rise of National Socialism from the first days of World War II onward. A major study entitled "Growth of the Race Idea" presents a masterful summary of the two volumes on that subject Voegelin first published in 1933. A related essay of wide interest is entitled "Nietzsche, the Crisis, and the War."
Another facet of Voegelin's thought incorporated within this volume of the Essays is his extraordinary analysis of the diplomatic correspondence conducted between the Western powers, the papacy, and the Great Khans, whose breathtaking expansion of the Mongol Empire for a time threatened to extinguish Western civilization itself and resulted in a two-century domination of Russia. Another major study is "The Origins of Scientism," an illuminating analysis of the grounds of much of modern philosophy and of all modern political ideologies.
There are also surveys of the state of political theory in the late forties, penetrating studies of utopian thought with essays on Thomas More and Goethe, and a concluding essay that explores the intricacies of "Gnostic Politics"—a familiar theme from Voegelin's contemporaneous New Science of Politics. This volume of published essays shows Eric Voegelin at his most accessible best.
作者简介
About the Author
Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) was one of the most original and influential philosophers of our time. Born in Cologne, Germany, he studied at the University of Vienna, where he became a professor of political science in the Faculty of Law. In 1938, he and his wife, fleeing Hitler, immigrated to the United States. They became American citizens in 1944. Voegelin spent much of his career at Louisiana State University, the University of Munich, and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. During his lifetime he published many books and more than one hundred articles. The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin will make available in a uniform edition all of Voegelin's major writings.
About the Editor
Ellis Sandoz, Hermann Moyse Jr. Distinguished Professor of Political Science, is Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies at Louisiana State University. He is the general editor of Voegelin's History of Political Ideas and author or editor of numerous books, including The Politics of Truth and Other Untimely Essays: The Crisis of Civic Consciousness, available from the University of Missouri Press.
目录
Acknowledgments ix
Editor's Introduction 1
1. Extended Strategy: A New Technique of Dynamic Relations (1940) 15
2. The Growth of the Race Idea (1940) 27
3. Some Problems of German Hegemony (1941) 62
4. The Mongol Orders of Submission to European Powers, 1245-1255 (1941) 76
5. Nietzsche, the Crisis, and the War (1944) 126
6. Political Theory and the Pattern of General History (1944) 157
7. The Origins of Scientism (1948) 168
8. More's Utopia (1951) 197
9. Goethe's Utopia (1952) 218
10. Gnostic Politics (1952) 223
Index 241