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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.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Rethinking Eric Voegelin's Interpretation of Liberalism and Its History
David D. Corey
Chapter 2: The Necessity of Moral Communication in a Pluralistic Political Environment
Scott Robinson
Chapter 3: Defenders of Democracy: Freedom and Responsibility in America Today
Scott Robinson
Chapter 4: The Origins of Scientism: Revisited
David N. Whitney
Chapter 5: Voegelin, Rawls, and the Persistence of Liberal Civil Theology
Grant Havers
Chapter 6: The Comparative Politics of Eric Voegelin
Lee Trepanier
Chapter 7: 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
Chapter 8: "The Five Ways of World-Empire"
Christopher S. Morrissey
Chapter 9: Eric Voegelin's 1944 "Political Theory and the Pattern of General History": An Account from the Biography of a Philosophizing Consciousness
Nathan Harter
About the author
Scott Robinson is assistant professor of political science and assistant director of the Morris Family Center for Law and Liberty at Houston Baptist University.Lee Trepanier, Assumption University, USADavid Whitney is associate professor of political science at Nicholls State UniversityGrant Havers is professor of philosophy and political studies at Trinity Western University.Scott Robinson is assistant professor of political science and assistant director of the Morris Family Center for Law and Liberty at Houston Baptist University.Lee Trepanier, Assumption University, USADavid Whitney is associate professor of political science at Nicholls State University
Summary
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 time's remains as meaningful today as it was in the 1950s.
