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Tracing the Roots of Disorder: Perspectives on the Early Work of Eric Voegelin
Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS
Author: Thomas J. DiNapoli, Ernest Easterly III, Henry Vander Goot, and Barry Cooper
Publication: The world & I online
Issue Date: 2/1/1986
Size: 10,542 Words, 65,656 Characters

POLITICAL RELIGIONS
Eric Voegelin, trans. Thomas J. DiNapoli and Ernest Easterly III
Edwin Mellen Press, 1986
210 pages, $49.95

Introduction

Since the death of Eric Voegelin in January 1985 at the age of 84, his stature among historians of intellectual thought has risen steadily. For years restricted to a rather limited, often elitist circle of interpreters, Voegelin is finally receiving the much deserved attention of a wider scholarly community.

Given the evergrowing awareness on the part of scholars and publishers of this significant philosopher, there has now arisen a desire first, to place in print all of his extant work and second, to make available in translation work previously inaccessible to all but a German-speaking readership. An example is his Politica...


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...n experiences of order. The four books on ideology, written under the pressure of strenuous events, of which the last is presented here in English, constitute the necessary initial and negative moment, the exposure of the lie.

Barry Cooper is professor of political science at the University of Calgary and is the author of The End of History, An Essay on Modern Hegelianism (1984).


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