{"product_id":"history-of-political-ideas-volume-eric-voegelin-9780826212009","title":"History of Political Ideas, Volume 6 (Cw24): Revolution and the New Science Volume 24","description":"\u003cp\u003eVolume VI of Voegelin's account of the history of Western political ideas continues from the point reached in the previous volume with the study of the mystic-philosopher Jean Bodin. Voegelin begins with a discussion of the conflict between Bishop Bossuet and Voltaire concerning the relationship between what is conventionally identified as sacred history and profane history. Bossuet maintained the traditional Christian position, the origin of which may be traced to Saint Augustine's \u003ci\u003eCity of God.\u003c\/i\u003e Voegelin shows, however, that while Bossuet may have been heir to an adequate understanding of human existence, Voltaire drew attention to a series of historical facts, such as the comparative size of the Russian and Roman empires, the existence of Chinese civilization, and the discovery of the New World, that could be incorporated into Bossuet's account only with great difficulty or not at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the first time, the theoretical problem of the historicity of evocative symbols of political order becomes the focus of Voegelin's analysis. This major problem, which found a provisional solution in the \u003ci\u003eNew Science\u003c\/i\u003e of Vico, was intertwined with several additional ones that may be summarized in terms of an increasing closure toward what Voegelin calls the world- transcendent ground of reality. Voegelin traces the consequences of the new attitudes and sentiments in terms of an increasing disorientation in personal, social, and political life, a disorientation that was expressed in increasingly impoverished experiences and accounts of history and of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVico represents the great exception to this decline in the intellectual adequacy of modern political ideas and modern self- understanding. Readers familiar with Voegelin's \u003ci\u003eNew Science of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e will find in the long, challenging, and brilliant chapter on Vico and his \u003ci\u003eNew Science\u003c\/i\u003e one of the major textual analyses that sustained Voegelin's entire intellectual enterprise. Indeed, the chapter on Vico, along with similarly provocative and insightful chapters on Bodin and on Schelling in other volumes, may almost be read as an element of Voegelin's own spiritual autobiography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Voegelin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 082621200X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826212009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Missouri Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/08\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.32h x 6.32w x 0.94d","brand":"Eric Voegelin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48447798182143,"sku":"9780826212009","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_51af381d-1d28-41de-8bca-fc4bf88ea5cc.jpg?v=1777234884","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/history-of-political-ideas-volume-eric-voegelin-9780826212009","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}