Autobiographical Reflections - Softcover

Voegelin, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807115150 ISBN 13: 9780807115152

Publisher: Univ of Missouri Pr, 1989

Synopsis

Drawing from a list of thinkers who created the intellectual foundation of the 20th century, Voegelin discusses their contributions to his own development and to the consciousness of the age. 4 cassettes.

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About the Author

About the Author

Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) was one of the most original and influential philosophers of our time. Born in Cologne, Germany, he studied at the University of Vienna, where he became a professor of political science in the Faculty of Law. In 1938, he and his wife, fleeing Hitler, emigrated to the United States. They became American citizens in 1944. Voegelin spent much of his career at Louisiana State University, the University of Munich, and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. During his lifetime he published many books and more than one hundred articles. The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin will make available in a uniform edition all of Voegelin's major writings.

  About the Editor

Ellis Sandoz, Hermann Moyse Jr. Distinguished Professor of Political Science, is Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies at Louisiana State University. He is the general editor of Voegelin's History of Political Ideas and author or editor of numerous books, including Republicanism, Religion, and the Soul of America, A Government of Laws: Political Theory, Religion,and the American Founding and The Politics of Truth and Other Untimely Essays: The Crisis of Civic Consciousness.

Review

"We are indeed fortunate that one of the twentieth century's authentic titans in philosophy and history thought to set down his autobiographical reflections before his passing. It is hard to imagine a more lustrous and also engrossing memoir."—Robert Nisbet

"A valuable introduction for any student of Voegelin, being, as it is, nothing less than Voegelin's own account of the intellectual influences that went into the making of his great work, Order and History. We are indebted to Ellis Sandoz."—Walker Percy

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ of Missouri Pr
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807115150
• ISBN 13: 9780807115152
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136
• Editor: Sandoz Ellis