The Unity of Mankind and the Conversation of Civilizations - Reflections on the Basis of Eric Voegelin's The Ecumenic Age

The book focuses on Eric Voegelin's work "The Ecumenic Age", which contains an original interpretation of universal history (I). In addition to analyses of the ecumenic age, the volume contains a series of further articles on political theory and the philosophy of history (II), as well as some concluding reviews of new publications and classic works (III).

About the author

Axel Bark is a attorney of Law and Political Scientist. He studied Law and Political Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and is a former student of Eric Voegelin.

Harald Bergbauer, Dr., is a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management (FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie und Management) and a research assistant at the University of Bern, Zurich. Previously, he worked for over 20 years at the Munich School of Public Policy at the Technical University of Munich.

Summary

The book focuses on Eric Voegelin’s work “The Ecumenic Age”, which contains an original interpretation of universal history (I). In addition to analyses of the ecumenic age, the volume contains a series of further articles on political theory and the philosophy of history (II), as well as some concluding reviews of new publications and classic works (III).

Product details

• Assisted by: Axel Bark (Editor), Bergbauer (Editor), Harald Bergbauer (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill Fink
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.08.2025
• EAN: 9783770569601
• ISBN: 978-3-7705-6960-1
• No. of pages: 455
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 35 mm x 245 mm
• Weight: 985 g
• Illustrations: 5 SW-Abb., 1 Tabellen
• Series: Eric Voegelin Studies: Yearbook
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > 20th and 21st centuries; Philosophie, Aristoteles, Geschichtsphilosophie, Platon, Paulus, Philosophy of History, Plato, Paul, Hegel, Anaximander, Aristotle, Historiogenesis, Ökumenisches Zeitalter, chinesisches Geschichtsdenken