Ordnung und Geschichte Band 4: Die Welt der Polis: Gesellschaft, Mythos und Geschichte

Name: Ordnung und Geschichte Band 4: Die Welt der Polis: Gesellschaft, Mythos und Geschichte
Author: Voegelin

1957

by Voegelin

Eric VoegelinPolitical PhilosophyAncient PhilosophyAristotlePlatoImmanuel KantGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelKarl MarxVoltaireRule of LawRationalityAnthropologyLudwig M. LachmannDemocracy

Table of Contents · 45 segments

Front Matter, Series Information, Title Pages, Copyright, and Dedicationessay

General and Analytical Tables of Contentsessay

Eric Voegelin’s Foreword to Order and History, Volume IIessay

Editors’ Foreword to the German Editionessay

Introduction: Humanity and Historytheoretical

Humanity, History, and the Four Phenomena of the Leap in Beingtheoretical

Mysteries of Progress, the Past, and Authoritative Truththeoretical

Ancient Precedents: Israel, Hellas, and Stoic Theology of Historytheoretical

Ancient Limits, Pauline Insight, Coexisting Orders, and the Augustinian Inheritancetheoretical

Voltaire, Civilizational Morphology, Hegelian Gnosis, and the Destruction of Historytheoretical

Jaspers, Toynbee, and Parallel Salvation Historiestheoretical

Critique of Axial Parallelism and the Western Symbolism of Historytheoretical

Introductory questions: identifying Greek orderchapter

General features of Hellenic historical consciousnesschapter

Herodotus: myth, memory, and pragmatic historychapter

Thucydides: power politics and the reconstruction of early Greecechapter

Plato’s recovery of Minoan origins and the opening summarychapter

Hellas and History: Greek Memory, Crisis, and the Historical Cycletheoretical

The Cretan and Achaean Societies: Aegean City Culture, Minoan Order, and Mycenaean Transitionchapter

Achaean Continuity and the Emergence of the Helleneschapter

Chapter 3: Homer and Mycenaechapter

Section 1: Homeric Questionschapter

Homeric Question, Poet-Prophets, and the Transfiguration of Achaean Memorychapter

Achaean Constitutional Order in the Iliad and Odysseychapter

The Wrath of Achilles as Pathology of Orderchapter

Paris, Helen, Eros, and the Disorder of Troychapter

The Odyssey on Disorder in Ithacachapter

Homer’s Aetiology of Disorder and Pre-Philosophical Anthropologychapter

The Hellenic Polis: Synoikismos and Gentilician Structurechapter

The Polis, Aristocratic Culture, and Tyrannical Stabilizationchapter

Sympoliteia and the Limits of Enlarged Citizenshipchapter

The Failure of Greek Leagues and the Macedonian Turnchapter

Hesiod and the Passage from Myth to Metaphysicschapter

Hesiod’s Theogony and the Origin of Orderchapter

Works and Days: Invocation, Eris, Dike, and Admonitionchapter

Hesiod’s Fables and the Dream of Paradisechapter

Hesiod’s Ages of the World and Comparative Period Mythschapter

Hesiod’s Apocalypse, Prophetic Parallels, and Thucydidean Realitychapter

Index of Personsbibliography

Index of Modern Authorsbibliography

Subject Indexbibliography

Translator’s Notes to the German Editionfootnotes

Gebhardt Afterword: Order and History and the Greek Caseessay

Gebhardt Afterword: Cosmological Myth, Minoan-Mycenaean Memory, and Homeressay

Gebhardt Afterword: Polis and Political Thinkingessay