History of Political Ideas: Religion and the Rise of Modernity v. 5 (Collected Works of Eric Voegelin) - Hardcover

Eric Voegelin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826211941 ISBN 13: 9780826211941

Publisher: University of Missouri Press, 1998

Synopsis

Examining the emergence of modernity within the philosophical and political debates of the 16th century, this book analyzes the ""great confusion"". It features such thinkers as Calvin, Althusius, Hooker, Bracciolini, Savonarola, Copernicus, Tycho de Brahe, Giordano Bruno and Jean Bodin.

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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 James L. Wiser is Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Political Philosophy: A History of the Search for Order and Political Theory: A Thematic Inquiry.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0826211941
• ISBN 13: 9780826211941
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: James L. Wiser