{"product_id":"what-is-history-and-other-eric-voegelin-9780807116036","title":"What Is History? and Other Late Unpublished Writings (Cw28): Volume 28","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume contains the most significant pieces of unpublished writing completed by Eric Voegelin during an important time of his career. Spanning the period from the early 1960s to the late 1970s, these selections supplement the body of work Voegelin published after the appearance of the first three volumes of \u003ci\u003eOrder and History\u003c\/i\u003e in 1956 and 1957. The five texts included here are \"What Is History?\" \"Anxiety and Reason,\" \"The Eclipse of Reality,\" \"The Moving Soul,\" and \"The Beginning and the Beyond.\" In their introduction to the volume, Thomas A. Hollweck and Paul Caringella place these writings in their proper context and discuss the ways in which they reveal clues to the evolution of Voegelin's thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"What Is History?\" Voegelin considers the development of a transcendent structure of history while simultaneously rejecting the notion that history can have a universal meaning. \"Anxiety and Reason\" focuses on Voegelin's critically important theory of historiogenesis, which links events in pragmatic history with legendary and mythical events leading back to the beginning of the cosmic order. In \"The Eclipse of Reality,\" Voegelin presents a critique of modernity by analyzing the work of Sartre, Schiller, Comte, and others. \"The Moving Soul\"--a \"thought experiment\" inspired by a remark Henry Margenau makes in \u003ci\u003eThe Nature of Physical Reality\u003c\/i\u003e--attempts to reformulate the connections between physics and myth. The most important of these essays is \"Me Beginning and the Beyond.\" Here Voegelin meditates on the universality of experience formed by the tension of existence under God.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublication of these previously unpublished writings will enable scholars to trace the genesis of many of the concerns that occupied Voegelin during a period in which the conception of his main work was undergoing frequent and perhaps fundamental changes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Voegelin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807116033\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807116036\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 09\/01\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.35h x 6.33w x 1.10d","brand":"Eric Voegelin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44072793112831,"sku":"9780807116036","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cf1d7a84-5556-4a03-bd6f-9e4d7f273fea.jpg?v=1685443972","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/what-is-history-and-other-eric-voegelin-9780807116036","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}