{"product_id":"published-essays-1940-1952-cw10-eric-voegelin-9780826213044","title":"Published Essays, 1940-1952 (Cw10): Volume 10","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublished Essays, 1940-1952, \u003c\/i\u003e includes some of Eric Voegelin's most provocative and interesting essays. Containing his first publications after he fled Vienna and settled in the United States following Hitler's annexation of Austria, this volume provides eyewitness commentary on the rise of National Socialism from the first days of World War II onward. A major study entitled \"Growth of the Race Idea\" presents a masterful summary of the two volumes on that subject Voegelin first published in 1933. A related essay of wide interest is entitled \"Nietzsche, the Crisis, and the War.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnother facet of Voegelin's thought incorporated within this volume of the \u003ci\u003eEssays\u003c\/i\u003e is his extraordinary analysis of the diplomatic correspondence conducted between the Western powers, the papacy, and the Great Khans, whose breathtaking expansion of the Mongol Empire for a time threatened to extinguish Western civilization itself and resulted in a two-century domination of Russia. Another major study is \"The Origins of Scientism,\" an illuminating analysis of the grounds of much of modern philosophy and of all modern political ideologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are also surveys of the state of political theory in the late forties, penetrating studies of utopian thought with essays on Thomas More and Goethe, and a concluding essay that explores the intricacies of \"Gnostic Politics\"--a familiar theme from Voegelin's contemporaneous \u003ci\u003eNew Science of Politics.\u003c\/i\u003e This volume of published essays shows Eric Voegelin at his most accessible best.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Voegelin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0826213049\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826213044\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 10\/05\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.33w x 0.99d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2001 pg. 4","brand":"Eric Voegelin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46767123136767,"sku":"9780826213044","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c1266570-fa9e-4483-bf4c-9701a4fdc011.jpg?v=1744168913","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/published-essays-1940-1952-cw10-eric-voegelin-9780826213044","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}