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The Recurrence of the End Times: Voegelin, Hegel, and the Stop-History Movements explores the deep connection between modern political ideologies and the secular eschatological hopes and dreams of a post-Christian society.
List of contents
Part I: General Introduction to the End of History Controversy
Chapter 1: The End of History, Identity Politics, and Transcendence
Chapter 2: The Origins of a Hegelian Misunderstanding
Part II: Hegel and the Crisis of Christian Salvation History
Chapter 3: Universal History Reimagined
Chapter 4: Elements of Historiogenesis
Chapter 5: Tradition-Bound Historiogenesis: Christian Historia Sacra
Chapter 6: Gnostic Historiogenesis: The Case of Hegel
Chapter 7: Historical Mankind and Historical Traditions
Part III: Intentionality and the Historical Process
Chapter 8: Voegelin on Human Consciousness
Chapter 9: Kojève's Hegel on Time and History
Chapter 10: Voegelin on the Problem of Time and the "Stop-History" Movements
Part IV: Hegel's Eclipse of Reality
Chapter 11: Hegel as Psychiatric Case Study?
Chapter 12: Voegelin and R.D. Laing on the Divided Self
Chapter 13: Does Hegel Manifest Schizoid Symptoms?
Chapter 14: Shortcomings in Laing's Theory of the Two Selves
Chapter 15: Ontological Insecurity and Von Doderer's Analysis of Second Realities
Chapter 16: Voegelin on Hegel's Second Reality
Chapter 17: Voegelin's Kojèvian "Code" as an Inadequate Interpretation of Hegel's System
Part V: Kojève's Hegel: Deliberate Falsification or Valid Exegesis?
Chapter 18: Possible Interpretations of End of History Thesis
Chapter 19: Kojève on the Present and Future
Chapter 20: How Valid Are Kojève's Observations on the Modern World?
Chapter 21: Why Hegel's Rational State is neither Universal nor Homogeneous
Chapter 22: What is Hegel's Position on the End of History?
Chapter 23: Hegel on Transcendence and the "Beyond"
Conclusion: Transcendence, Death, and the Search for Order
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By Michael J. Colebrook
Summary
The Recurrence of the End Times: Voegelin, Hegel, and the Stop-History Movements explores the deep connection between modern political ideologies and the secular eschatological hopes and dreams of a post-Christian society.
