Die neue Wissenschaft der Politik: eine Einführung
1952
by Voegelin
Eric VoegelinPolitical PhilosophyAristotleMax WeberPlatoPositivismCommunismLiberalismThomas HobbesAncient PhilosophyRationalityGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelAuguste ComteEdmund HusserlMethodologyValue JudgmentsIdeal TypeMarxismNatural LawFriedrich NietzscheKarl MarxTotalitarianismIdeologyThomas AquinasDemographyGeopoliticsPhenomenologySovereigntyWorld War IIJohn Stuart MillVladimir LeninFrench RevolutionVoltaireVilfredo ParetoHans KelsenDemocracyLegal TheoryMonetary Theory
Table of Contents · 56 segments
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Front Matter, Title Page, and Publication Databibliography
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Table of Contents: Introduction through Gnosticism and Modernitychapter
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Continuing Table of Contents and Hooker Epigraphessay
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Author’s Preface to the German Editionessay
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Introduction Section 1: Representation and Philosophy of Historytheoretical
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Introduction Section 2: Positivism and the Destruction of Political Sciencetheoretical
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Introduction Section 3: Max Weber between Positivist Method and Theoretical Renewaltheoretical
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Introduction Section 4: The Restoration of Political Sciencetheoretical
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Representation and Existence: Social Self-Interpretation and Critical Clarificationtheoretical
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Descriptive Representation and the Limits of Electoral Institutionstheoretical
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Existential Representation: Articulation, Obedience, and Agencytheoretical
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Medieval and Democratic Symbols of Articulated Representationtheoretical
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Fortescue on Eruption, Corpus Mysticum, and the Intention of the Peopletheoretical
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Migration Kingdoms and Hauriou’s Institutional Theory of Representationtheoretical
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Summary: Existential Representation and the Crisis of Western Political Understandingtheoretical
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Representation and Truth: The Theorist, Social Reality, and Conflicting Truth Claimstheoretical
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Society as Representative of Cosmic Order and Imperial Truththeoretical
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The Challenge to Imperial Truth Beginstheoretical
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From Axial Truth to the Experiential Meaning of Theorytheoretical
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The Authority of Theoretical Truththeoretical
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Tragedy, Athens, and the Transfer of Truth to Philosophytheoretical
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Summary of Representation, Psyche, and Critical Truththeoretical
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Theoretical preliminaries: cosmological, anthropological, and soteriological truthchapter
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Varro and Augustine on the types of theologychapter
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The Civitas Dei, Roman civil religion, and the existential content of Roman theologychapter
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The princeps, imperial representation, and the weakness of sacramental bondschapter
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Christian de-divinization of the world and Celsus’s critiquechapter
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Metaphysical monotheism, Eusebius, Trinitarian orthodoxy, and the end of political theologychapter
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Gnosticism, Dedivinization, and Joachite Symbols of Modernitytheoretical
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Political Redivinization, Third Rome, and the Eidos of Historytheoretical
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Gnostic Immanentism, Faith, Progress, and Totalitarianismtheoretical
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Gnostic Modernity, Periodization, and the Reformation Breakthroughchapter
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Hooker's Puritan and the Anti-Theoretical Mechanics of Gnostic Movementschapter
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Puritan Apocalyptic Revolution and the Program for the Saints' New Orderchapter
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Hobbes's Theory of Representation and Civil Theologychapter
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The End of Modernity I: Gnosticism as Civil Theologychapter
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The End of Modernity II: The Gnostic Dream World and Permanent Warchapter
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The End of Modernity III: Liberalism, Communism, and the Gnostic Spectrumchapter
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Hobbes, Representation, and the Symbolism of Leviathanchapter
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Resistance to Gnosticism in England and Americachapter
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Name Indexbibliography
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Editor’s Afterword to the German Editionessay
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Opitz Afterword: Framing The New Science of Politicsessay
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First Work Stream: History of Political Ideas and the Interpretation of Modernityessay
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First Work Stream Continued: Philosophy of History, Experience, and Symbolizationessay
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Second Work Stream: Toward a Systematic Philosophy of Politics and Historyessay
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Third Work Stream: The Walgreen Lectures and the Emergence of the New Scienceessay
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Explaining The New Science I: Representation, Truth, Experience, and Platonismessay
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Explaining The New Science II: Gnosticism and the Nature of Modernityessay
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Title Search and Outlook on the New Scienceessay
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Bibliography of Voegelin’s Publications: Monographs and Posthumous Volumesbibliography
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Bibliography of Voegelin’s Essays, 1922–1959bibliography
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Bibliography of Voegelin’s Essays, 1960–1977bibliography
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Bibliography of Later and Posthumously Published Essays, 1981–2004bibliography
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Bibliography of Voegelin’s Reviews, 1922–1939bibliography
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Bibliography of Voegelin’s Reviews, 1941–2001bibliography