{"product_id":"order-and-history-volume-2-eric-voegelin-9780826212832","title":"Order and History, Volume 2 (Cw15): The World of the Polis Volume 15","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis second volume of Voegelin's magisterial \u003ci\u003eOrder and History, The World of the Polis, \u003c\/i\u003e explores the ancient Greek symbolization of human reality. Taking us from the origins of Greek culture in the Pre-Homeric Cretan civilizations, through the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOdyssey, \u003c\/i\u003e Hesiod, and the rise of philosophy with the Pre-Socratics Parmenides and Heraclitus, this masterful work concludes with the historians of the classical period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe World of the Polis, \u003c\/i\u003e Voegelin traces the emergence of the forms of the city-state and of philosophy from the ancient symbolism of myth. He maintains that the limits and ultimate goals of human nature are constant and that the central problem of every society is the same--\"to create an order that will endow the fact of its existence with meaning in terms of ends divine and human.\" Thus, Voegelin shows how \"the meaning of existence\" achieved concrete expression in the typical political, social, and religious institutions of Greece and in the productions of its poets and thinkers. He deals with more than fifty Greek writers in the course of his analysis of the rise of myth and its representation of the divine order of the cosmos as the first great symbolic form of order, one later supplanted by the leap in being reflected in the emergence of philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is a tour de force, a virtuoso performance by a scholar and philosopher of great power, learning, and imagination that places its subject matter in a new light. The editor's critical introduction places \u003ci\u003eThe World of the Polis\u003c\/i\u003e in the broader context of Voegelin's philosophy of history. Scholars and students of political science, philosophy, and the history of ideas will find this work invaluable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Voegelin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0826212832\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826212832\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 06\/30\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.36h x 6.39w x 1.62d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2000 pg. 16","brand":"Eric Voegelin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44072831811839,"sku":"9780826212832","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9a85d340-80fb-40b5-9b77-443ddc86f46f.jpg?v=1685444189","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/order-and-history-volume-2-eric-voegelin-9780826212832","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}