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From Enlightenment to Revolution
1975
by
Voegelin
Eric Voegelin
Political Philosophy
Natural Law
Voltaire
Auguste Comte
Marxism
Totalitarianism
Karl Marx
Positivism
John Locke
Ancient Philosophy
Jeremy Bentham
Friedrich Nietzsche
Utilitarianism
Class Struggle
Vladimir Lenin
Public Goods
Aristotle
Anarchism
Syndicalism
Demography
Historical School
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
Communism
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Vilfredo Pareto
Benito Mussolini
Phenomenology
Geopolitics
Legal Theory
Democracy
Nationalism
Egalitarianism
Imperialism
John Stuart Mill
Liberalism
French Revolution
Joseph Stalin
Napoleon Bonaparte
Plato
Immanuel Kant
Proletariat
Anthropology
Adolf Hitler
Russian Revolution
Federalism
Dialectical Materialism
Karl Kautsky
Rosa Luxemburg
Friedrich Engels
Innovation
Ideology
Division of Labor
Property Rights
Progressive Taxation
Table of Contents · 93 segments
1
Front Matter and Table of Contents
essay
2
Editor’s Preface
essay
3
Chapter I Opening: Enlightenment, Epoch Consciousness, and the Historical Crisis of Universality
chapter
4
Secularized History
chapter
5
The “esprit humain” as the Object of History
chapter
6
The Structure of Intramundane History
chapter
7
Bossuet’s Histoire des variations des églises protestantes
chapter
8
Bossuet’s Conférence avec M. Claude
chapter
9
The Dynamics of Secularization
chapter
10
Voltaire’s Attack
chapter
11
The Elemens de Philosophie de Newton
chapter
12
The Foundation of Ethics
chapter
13
The Meaning of Reason
chapter
14
Voltaire: Procedural Virtues and the Paradise of Compassion
chapter
15
Helvétius and the Genealogy of Passions
chapter
16
Helvétius and the Heritage of Pascal
chapter
17
Helvétius: General Interest, Class Struggle, the Jesuit Order, and Voegelin's Conclusion
chapter
18
Positivism and Its Antecedents: Western Crisis, Comte, and D’Alembert’s Discours
chapter
19
D’Alembert’s Encyclopédie: Genealogy of Knowledge, Progress, Justice, and Revolt
theoretical
20
The Disappearance of the Bios Theoretikos in Positivist Utilitarianism
theoretical
21
Toward a New Pouvoir Spirituel: D’Alembert’s Deism and Moral Catechism
theoretical
22
Progress and the Authoritative Present
theoretical
23
Securing the Present: D’Alembert, Technology, Turgot, and Comte’s Dogmatic Positivism
theoretical
24
Turgot’s Definition of Progress and the Masse Totale
theoretical
25
The Loss of the Christian Meaning of History
theoretical
26
Sacred history, progress, and the evoked masse totale
theoretical
27
Loss of the Christian ideas of man and mankind
theoretical
28
Utilitarian immaturity, tribalism of mankind, and profane history
theoretical
29
Turgot’s categories of history
theoretical
30
Turgot’s Historical Categories: Metathesis, Political Rhythm, Upheaval, Mélange, Stagnation, and Inequality
theoretical
31
Turgot’s Dilemma: Progress of Civilization versus Constant Human Nature
theoretical
32
After Turgot: Progress, Political Existence, and the Short-Circuit Evocation of Elites
theoretical
33
Emphasis on Political Existence: Critics of Progress and Activist Elite Movements
theoretical
34
Emphasis on Progress: Beginning of an Alternative Response to Turgot’s Dilemma
theoretical
35
Emphasis on Progress: Phenomenal Science, Myth, and Political Religion
theoretical
36
The Géographie Politique: Earth, Nation, and the Metaphysics of the Present
theoretical
37
Religion and Political Geography: Universal Religion, Tolerance, and Positivist Progress
theoretical
38
Turgot's Positivism, Nationalism, and the National State
theoretical
39
Condorcet and the Gospel of Progress
theoretical
40
Opening Thesis of Chapter VI on Comte
chapter
41
The Split in the Life of Comte
chapter
42
Comte’s Positivist Eschatology: Liberalism, Continuity, Phases, and Meditation
theoretical
43
Intervention and Social Regeneration
theoretical
44
The Divinization of Woman
theoretical
45
The Religion of Humanity and the French Revolution: Comte’s New Era
chapter
46
The Historicity of the Mind and the Apocalypse of Man
theoretical
47
The Grand-Être and the Fiction of Christ
theoretical
48
France and the Occidental Republic
theoretical
49
Napoleon and the Occidental Republic
theoretical
50
The Heritage of the French Revolution and the Revolution-Restoration Crisis
theoretical
51
The Permanent Revolution of the Liberals
theoretical
52
Internationalism
theoretical
53
Continuation of Restoration Christian Unity Literature and Notes
footnotes
54
De Maistre, Apocalyptic Restoration Thought, and the Holy Alliance
theoretical
55
Saint-Simon, Scientific Positivism, Industrialism, and Technocratic Order
theoretical
56
Revolutionary Existence: Bakunin — Chapter Introduction
chapter
57
Reaction and Revolution
chapter
58
Bakunin’s Confession
chapter
59
Bakunin's Confession, Repentance, and Love of the Enemy
theoretical
60
Disillusionment and Repentance
theoretical
61
Faith Under Will
theoretical
62
Pan-Slavic Imperialism
theoretical
63
Revolt of the Soul versus Marxian Necessity
theoretical
64
Bakunin: The Anarchist—Introduction and Terrorism
chapter
65
Kropotkin and the Anthropology of Anarchism
theoretical
66
Tolstoi, Gandhi, and Bakunin’s Revolutionary Foundation
theoretical
67
The Nechaiev Affair and the Opening of The Principles of Revolution
theoretical
68
Footnotes on the Nechaiev Affair and Bakunin’s Revolutionary Writings
footnotes
69
The Principles of Revolution: Destruction, Amorphism, and Pneumatic Disease
theoretical
70
Self-annihilation—the Mystical Leap
theoretical
71
The Mystery of Evil in Historical Existence
theoretical
72
The Late Work of Bakunin
theoretical
73
Satanism and Materialism
theoretical
74
Bakunin’s Materialism, Revolt, and Freedom
theoretical
75
Marx as Activist Mystic and the Problem of Interpreting Marx
theoretical
76
Marx’s Vision: The Realms of Necessity and Freedom
theoretical
77
The Derailment of Marx into Preparation for Revolution
theoretical
78
The Marxist Movement—Revisionism
theoretical
79
The Marxist Movement—Communism
theoretical
80
Russian Imperialism and the Derailment of Marxism
theoretical
81
Inverted Dialectics, Logophobia, and Historical Materialism
theoretical
82
Pseudological Speculation
theoretical
83
Inversion
theoretical
84
Marx: The Genesis of Gnostic Socialism
chapter
85
Marx’s Gnostic Socialism: Revolutionary Practice, Feuerbach, and the Critique of Religion and Politics
chapter
86
German Proletarian Revolution, Reformation, and Human Emancipation
theoretical
87
Substance and Process of History
theoretical
88
Industrial Alienation: Specialization and Economic Interdependence
theoretical
89
Socialistic Man, True Communism, and the Communist Manifesto
theoretical
90
Marxist Revolutionary Tactics after 1848
theoretical
91
Conclusion: Marx as Gnostic Socialism and Industrial Alienation
chapter
92
Index
bibliography
93
Other Duke University Press Books in Paperback
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