Title Eric Voegelin and the continental tradition : explorations in modern political thought / edited by Lee Trepanier and Steven F. McGuire

Published Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (272 pages) Series Eric Voegelin series in political philosophy Eric Voegelin Institute series in political philosophy. Studies in religion and politics Eric Voegelin Institute series in political philosophy. Eric Voegelin Institute series in political philosophy. Studies in religion and politics. Contents "Out of such crooked wood" : how Eric Voegelin read Immanuel Kant / Thomas W. Heilke -- Voegelin and the troubled greatness of Hegel / Cyril O'Regan -- Voegelin and Schelling on freedom and the beyond / Steven F. McGuire -- Noesis and faith : Eric Voegelin and Søren Kierkegaard / Eugen L. Nagy -- Dionysus versus the crucified : Nietzsche and Voegelin and the search for a truthful order / Rouven J. Steeves -- Eric Voegelin and Neo-Kantianism : early formative experience or late entrapment? / Arpad Szakolczai -- Voegelin and Heidegger : apocalypse without apocalypse / David Walsh -- Voegelin and Gadamer : continental philosophers inspired by Plato and Aristotle / Fred Lawrence -- Voegelin, Strauss, and Kojève on tyranny / Barry Cooper -- The paradoxes of participatory reality / Lee Trepanier Summary Twentieth-century political philosopher Eric Voegelin is best known as a severe critic of modernity. Much of his work argues that modernity is a Gnostic revolt against the fundamental structure of reality. For Voegelin, "Gnosticism" is the belief that human beings can transform the nature of reality through secret knowledge and social action, and he considered it the crux of the crisis of modernity. As Voegelin struggled with this crisis throughout his career, he never wavered in his judgment that philosophers of the modern continental tradition were complicit in the Gnostic revolt of modernity But while Voegelin's analysis of those philosophers is at times scathing, his work also bears marks of their influence, and Voegelin has much more in common with the theorists of the modern continental tradition than is usually recognized. Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition: Exploratious in Modern Political Thought evaluates this political philosopher--one of the most original and influential thinkers of our time--by examining his relationship to the modern continental tradition in philosophy, from Kant to Derrida In a compelling introduction, editors Lee Trepanier and Steven F. McGuire present a review of the trajectoriesof Voegelin's thought and outline what often is portrayed as his derisive critique of modernity. Soon, however, they begin to unravel the similarities between Voegelin's thought and the work of other thinkers in the continental tradition. The subsequent chapters explore these possible connections by examining Voegelin's intellectual relationship to individual thinkers, including Hegel, Schelling, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Gadamer The essays in this volume go beyond Voegelin's own reading of the modern philosophers to offer a reevaluation of his relationship to those thinkers. In Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition, Voegelin's attempt to grapple with the crisis of modernity becomes clearer, and his contribution to the modern continental tradition is illuminated. The book features the work of both established and emerging Voegelin scholars, and the essays were chosen to present thoughtful and balanced assessments of both Voegelin's thought and the ideas of the other thinkers considered. As the first volume to examine the relationship--and surprising commonalities--between Voegelin's philosophy and the continental tradition as a whole, this text will be of interest not only to Voegelin disciples but to philosophers engaged by continental modernism and all disciplines of political philosophy. --Book Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Voegelin, Eric, 1901-1985. Voegelin, Eric, 1901-1985 -- Political and social views SUBJECT Voegelin, Eric, 1901-1985 fast Voegelin, Eric. swd Subject Political science -- History. Political science -- Philosophy -- History PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern. Political and social views Political science Political science -- Philosophy Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Trepanier, Lee, 1972- McGuire, Steven F. ISBN 9780826272386 082627238X

Other Titles Explorations in modern political thought

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