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Eric Voegelin's dialogue with the postmoderns : searching for foundations / edited with an introduction by Peter A. Petrakis and Cecil L. Eubanks.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voegelin, Eric, 1901-1985.
- Voegelin, Eric.
- Political science--History--20th century.
- Political science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (199 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of essays endeavors to generate a dialogue between Eric Voegelin and other prominent twentieth century thinkers and explore some of the more perplexing issues in contemporary political theory. Each essay rests on the underlying question: is it possible or desirable to construct or discover political foundations without resorting to metaphysical or essentialist constructs? The introduction focuses on the two nineteenth century thinkers, Nietzsche and Husserl, who have framed the debate about modernity and postmodernity; thereafter, the book examines Voegelin's ideas as compared to those of other twentieth century thinkers. Discussed within the volume are Levinas and the precedence of ethics, Ricoeur's theory of narrative representation, Deleuze and the philosophy of immanence, Voegelin's relationship to a speech dimension theory of human behavior, and Patocka's theory of pre metaphysical transcendence in Socrates. What will impress scholars most about this collection is the provocative dialogue created between Voegelin and other major thinkers of postmodernism that addresses the issue of establishing foundations without foundationalism.
- Contents:
- Voegelin and Ricoeur / Peter A. Petrakis
- Sight, sound, and participatory symbolization / Murray Jardine
- Immanence/transcendence / Jeffrey A. Bell
- Voegelin and Levinas on the "foundations" of ethics and politics / William Paul Simmons
- Politics, metaphysics, and anti-foundationalism in the works of Eric Voegelin and Jan Patocka / Edward F. Findlay.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8262-6427-1
- OCLC:
- 191931458
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