Published Essays: 1922-1928
Published Essays: 1922-1928
副标题: (Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 7)
ISBN: 9780826214423
出版社: Louisiana State University Press
出版年: February 2003
页数: 368 pages
定价: $44.95
装帧: Hardcover
内容简介
This volume of The Collected Works contains essays that were published by Voegelin from 1922 to 1928, the period immediately following his doctoral studies and including a two-year study trip to the United States. They trace his intellectual formation in the 1920s, which resulted in a critique of political science conceived of in exclusively legal terms, and a move toward one that examines the substratum of ideas and structures that provide the meaningful unit of a given political society.
In light of his study trip to the United States, many of the essays reflect the theoretical and practical concerns he examined while there. Just as important, they also show how his experiences abroad amplified the direction his thinking took once he was removed from the tutelage of Hans Kelsen, one of his doctoral advisers.
Voegelin viewed this trip as a turning point in his own intellectual development. Therefore, these essays reflect the growth of this outstanding scholar who was just beginning not only his career, but also an intellectual journey. This journey helped to crystallize and bring forth fundamental reformations of his science, brought on by the new perspective and approaches he experienced abroad.
The topics of the essays range from the highly speculative—theories of state form, the science of Max Weber, the sociology of knowledge, Humean sociology, time and economy, and Kelsen's pure theory of law—to more pragmatic questions such as procedures for amending the American constitution, the workings of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, class conflict in the United States, and a fascinating account of the deliberations by the French National Assembly that led to the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man. This volume is key in exemplifying the movements in Voegelin's career—from a student to a scholar in his own right. These essays illustrate the works of a thinker in the midst of a crucial transformation of the principles of his science.
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 Editors
Thomas W. Heilke is Associate Professor of Political Science and Distinguished Lecturer in Western Civilization at the University of Kansas. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 9: Published Essays, 1934-1939. John von Heyking is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Lethbridge in Canada and the author of Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World.
目录
Editor's Introduction 1
1. The Social Determination of Sociological Knowledge: A Sociological Examination 27
2. The Pure Theory of Law and of State 49
3. On Max Weber 100
4. Time in the Economy 118
5. From State Practice: The Constitutionality of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States 149
6. Economic and Class Conflict in America 175
7. Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law 182
8. La Follette and the Wisconsin Idea 192
9. On the Theory of the State Form 206
10.The Supplementary Bill to the Federal Reserve Act 255
11. The Supplementary Bill to the Federal Reserve Act and the Stabilization of the Dollar 262
12. The Research of Business Cycles and the Stabilization of Capitalism 274
13. The Meaning of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789 285
14. Two Fundamental Concepts of Humean Sociology 336
Index 345