Selected book reviews / Eric Voegelin ; edited and translated by Jodi Cockerill and Barry Cooper ; with an introduction by Barry Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Voegelin, Eric, 1901-1985.

Contributor:

Cockerill, Jodi Lynn, 1972-

Cooper, Barry, 1943-

Series:

Voegelin, Eric, 1901-1985. 1989 ; Works. v. 13.

The collected works of Eric Voegelin ; v. 13

Standardized Title:

Selections. 2001

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Political science--Book reviews.

Political science.

Genre:

Book reviews.

Reviews.

Physical Description:

xiii, 209 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbia [Mo.] : University of Missouri Press, [2001]

Language Note:

Some reviews originally written in German; the remainder were originally written in English.

Summary:

Over the course of his varied and distinguished academic life, Eric Voegelin was often called upon by review editors of scholarly journals as well as by editors in the popular press to examine, summarize, and critically assess the work of other scholars, of statesmen, and of men of affairs. The contents of the books Voegelin reviewed mirror his changing interests over the years, including questions of method, points of legal philosophy and jurisprudence, and issues of race, war, and the aftermath of war. Of course, he was frequently called upon as well to review standard texts and new editions and monographs across the full range of political science.

This collection of Voegelin's reviews amounts to a reflection in miniature of many of the problems Voegelin tackled in his essays, articles, and books from the 1920s until the 1950s, when, owing to the press of other business, he began to decline requests to review the work of others. Some of his reviews are little more than clinical summaries; others are analytic essays. A few are extended engagements with a text or a set of problems. Occasionally, particularly among the later reviews originally written in English, one finds flashes of Voegelin's legendary wit and a restrained impatience with the inadequate approaches or sheer incompetence of others. These book reviews will be of interest to all students and scholars of Eric Voegelin's work.

Contents:

1. Logik und Rechtswissenschaft: Grundriss eines Systems der reinen Rechtslehre / Felix Kaufmann (1923) 9

2. Das naturliche System der menschlichen Gesellschaft oder die Entstehung der Arten im periodischen System der sozialen Elemente / Heinrich Konrad (1923) 12

3. The Soul of the State (The Know Thyself), vol. 10 / Phil. al. Phil (1924) 14

4. Prolegomenes a une Mecanique Sociale / Peter Trisca (1924) 14

5. die Kriterien des Rechts / Felix Kaufmann (1925) 15

6. Mitt Gott fur Trust und Dividende / Walther Bohmer (1928) 18

Deutschland und Amerika / Karl H. Panhorst

Henry Ford / S. Marquis

Schreckensherrschaft in Amerika / Augustin Souchy

Sacco und Vanzetti / Eugene Lyons

Aus dem Arbeitsleben Amerikas / Fritz Tanzler

Systematische Wirtschaft / Heinz Ludwig

Die Wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Verhaltnisse im Kohlenbergbau der Vereinigten Staaten / Ernst Jungst

Die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika: Volk-Wirtschaft-Politik / Andre Siegfried (1928) 19

8. Amerika: Vorbild und Warnung / Edgar Ansel Mowrer (1928) 24

9. Introductory Sociology / Albert Muntsch, S.J., Henry S. Spalding, S.J. (1929) 25

10. An Introduction to the Study of Sociology / Frank Hamilton Hankins (1929) 26

11. Research in the Social Sciences: Its Fundamental Methods and Objective / edited by Wilson Gee (1929) 26

12. Die rechsttheoretischen Grundlagen des Sowjetstaates / Boris S. Mirkin-Getzewitsch (1929) 29

13. Die Staats- und Gesellschaftslehre Alberts des Grossen: Nach den Quellen dargestellt / Wilhelm Arendt (1929) 30

14. Staat und Gesellschaft in Amerika / Charlotte Lutkens (1930) 31

15. Theory of Legislation: An Essay on the Dynamics of the Public Mind / E. Jordan (1930) 37

16. Macht und menschliche Natur: Fachschriften zur Politik und staatsburgerlichen Erziehung / Hellmuth Plessner (1931) 38

17. "Die Verfassungslehre von Carl Schmitt." Review essay of Verfassungslehre / Carl Schmitt (1931) 42

18. Die moderne Nation / Heinz O. Ziegler (1932) 66

19. Daniel Defoe, Essay on Projects (1697): Rechtsgefuhl in Justiz und Politik, 1929 / Ernst Gerhard Jacob (1932) 69

20. Deutsche Gemeinschafts-philosophie der Gegenwart: Eine Untersuchung ihrer Grundkategorien und kritische Darstellung ihrer hauptsachliche metaphysiches Gestaltungen / Hans Steingraber (1933) 70

21. Das Wesen des Staatsgebietes / Walter Hamel (1933) 72

22. Handbuch der Amerikakunde: Handbucher der Auslandskunde, vol. 6 / edited by E. von Hartig, W. Schellberg (1933) 76

23. Rechtfertigung des Staates bei Christian Wolff / Guenter Namslau (1933) 76

24. Die Entstehung des Staates: Eine Staatstheoretische Untersuchung / Reinhold Horneffer (1934) 78

25. Verfassungsrecht und soziale Struktur / Dietrich Schindler (1934) 81

26. Politische und soziologische Staatslehre / Max Rumpf (1934) 84

27. Nationality and Government, with Other War-Time Essays, The Prospects of Democracy, and Other Essays / Alfred E. Zimmern (1934) 85

28. Das Rechtsgefuhl in Justiz und Politik / A. E. Hoche (1934) 86

29. Der sinnhafte Aufbau der sozialen Welt / Alfred Schutz (1934) 87

30. Verfassungsurkunde und Verfassungszustand der Tschechoslowakischen Republik / Fritz Sander (1935) 93

31. Der politische Volksbegriff im modernen Italien / Hermann Raschhofer (1936) 96

32. Die Geschlossene Wirtschaft: Soziologische Grundlegung des Autarkieproblems / Bernard Laum (1936) 97

33. Die Grundlagen des Nationalsozialismus: Eine ideengeschichtliche Untersuchung / Alois Hudal (1937) 100

34. Benjamin Franklin, Der Lehrmeister der amerikanischen Revolution: Die geistigen Grundlagen des amerikanischen Gemeinwesens, vol. 1 / Eduard Baumgarten (1937) 104

35. Carl Schmitts Theorie des "Politischen" / Hans Krupa (1937) 109

36. Rechtsoziologie: Probleme der Gesellschaftslehre und der Geschichtslehre des Rechts / Barna Horvath (1937) 110

37. Faschismus und Nationalsozialismus / Peter Berger (1937) 115

38. La misere par la surabondance: Karl Marx, pere de la crise mondiale / J. Boissonnet (1939) 117

39. The Ruling Class / Gaetano Mosca, translated by Hannah D. Kahn, edited and revised with an introduction by Arthur Livingston (1939) 117

The Structure of the Nazi Economy / Maxine Y. Sweezy

The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship / Ernst Fraenkel, translated by E. A. Shils, in collaboration with Edith Lowenstein, Klaus Knorr (1942) 120

41. The Enigma of Admiral Darlan / Alec de Montmorency (1943) 123

42. The Decline of Liberalism as an Ideology: With Particular Reference to German Politico-Legal Thought / John H. Hallowell (1944) 124

43. The Foundation of Phenomenology: Edmund Husserl and the Quest for a Rigorous Science of Philosophy / Marvin Farber (1944) 126

44. The Growth of German Historicism / Friedrich Engel-Janosi (1944) 129

General Theory of Law and State / Hans Kelsen, translated by Anders Wedberg

The Pure Theory of Law / William Ebenstein (1945) 131

46. Contemporary Italy: Its Intellectual and Moral Origins / Count Carlo Sforza, translated by Drake De Kay, Denise De Kay (1945) 134

47. Rosenberg's Nazi Myth / Albert R. Chandler (1946) 137

48. Soviet Politics: At Home and Abroad / Frederick L. Schuman (1946) 138

49. The Lessons of Germany: A Guide to Her History / Gerhart Eisler, Albert Norden, Albert Schreiner (1946) 146

50. Soviet Legal Theory: Its Social Background and Development / Rudolph Schlesinger (1947) 147

51. The Meeting of East and West: An Inquiry Concerning World Understanding / F. S. C. Northrop (1947) 149

52. Post-War Governments of Europe / edited by David Fellman (1947) 154

53. The Myth of the State / Ernst Cassirer (1947) 156

54. Sechs Jahre Minister der Deutschen Republik: Bemuhung um Oesterreich, Das Scheitern des Zollunionsplans von 1931 / Julius Curtius (1948) 158

55. Homo Ludens: Versuch einer Bestimmung des Spielements der Kultur / Jan Huizinga (1948) 160

56. On Tyranny: An Interpretation of Xenophon's Hiero / Leo Strauss, a foreword by Alvin Johnson (1949) 168

57. Old China Hands and the Foreign Office / Nathan A. Pelcovits (1949) 174

58. Western Political Thought: An Historical Introduction from the Origins to Rousseau / John Bowle (1949) 176

59. Grundlinien der Antiken Rechts- und Staatsphilosophie, Zweite Erweiterte Auflage / Alfred Verdross-Drossberg (1949) 179

60. The New Science of Giambattista Vico, translated from the third edition (1744) / Thomas G. Bergin, Max A. Fisch (1949) 180

61. Europa und das Romische Recht / Paul Koschaker (1950) 181

62. Geschichtswissenschaft / Fritz Wagner (1953) 184

Plato's Modern Enemies and the Theory of Natural Law / John Wild

In Defense of Plato / Ronald B. Levinson (1954) 185

64. Politique et philosophie chez Thomas Hobbes / Raymond Polin (1955) 189

65. Medieval Political Ideas / Ewart Lewis (1955) 191.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0826213650

OCLC:

48522074