Contributor
Robinson, Scott, editor.
ImprintLanham : Lexington Books, [2019]
Descriptionvi, 216 pages ; 23 cm.
Note:Rethinking Eric Voegelin's Interpretation of Liberalism and Its History / David D. Corey -- The Necessity of Moral Communication in a Pluralistic Political Environment / Scott Robinson -- Defenders of Democracy: Freedom and Responsibility in America Today / Scott Robinson -- The Origins of Scientism: Revisited / David N. Whitney -- Voegelin, Rawls, and the Persistence of Liberal Civil Theology / Grant Havers -- The Comparative Politics of Eric Voegelin / Lee Trepanier -- 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 -- The Five Ways of World-Empire / Christopher S. Morrissey -- Eric Voegelin's 1944 "Political Theory and the Pattern of General History": An Account from the Biography of a Philosophizing Consciousness / Nathan Harter.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note: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.
