Published Essays: 1934-1939

出版者:University of Missouri Press

作者:Eric Voegelin

页数:170pages

译者:M. J. Hanak (Translator)

出版时间:May 2001

价格:$34.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780826213372

具体描述

In this collection of essays, which covers the years from 1934 to1939, we see Eric Voegelin in the role of both scholar and public intellectual in Vienna until he was forced to flee the Nazi terror that descended on Austria in 1938. Revealing the broad spectrum of thinking and scientific study of this relatively young scholar, Voegelin's essays range from Austrian politics, Austrian constitutional history, and European racism to questions of the formation and expression of public opinion, theories of administrative law, and the role of political science in public university education. Several essays serve as useful commentaries on, elaborations of, or synopses of arguments Voegelin made in the five books he had published between 1928 and 1938.

Within these topical headings, there are multiple thematic threads that wind their way through these essays and that remain of interest to contemporary readers. Thirteen of the pieces contained in this collection are short items that Voegelin published in trade journals and newspapers, of which nine appeared in the Wiener Zeitung in 1934 and the Neue Freie Presse in 1937. In these we see two brief periods in which Voegelin played the role of public intellectual not only as a lecturer but also in print.

These essays will be of interest to a wide range of scholars, including constitutional historians, historians of political science, political theorists, and students of Voegelin's later work.

作者简介

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, immigrated 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

Thomas W. Heilke is Associate Professor of Political Science and Distinguished Lecturer in Western Civilization at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Eric Voegelin: In Quest of Reality and Voegelin on the Idea of Race: An Analysis of Modern European Racism.

目录信息

Editor's Introduction 1
1. The Race Idea and Science: A Clarification (1934) 13
2. One More "Race and State" in Political Science: A Rebuttal (1934) 17
3. Drafting a Constitution for Austria (1934) 23
4. A New Cameral System in the Mirror of History (1934) 28
5. The Authoritarian State Core (1934) 32
6. Danse Macabre, 1934: A Retrospect on the Commemoration Day of the Deceased (1934) 37
7. Race and State (1935) 40
8. The Administrative Regime: Advantages and Disadvantages; A General Report by M. Adolf Merkl, Professor at the University of Vienna, and Mr. Eric Voegelin, Private Docent at the University of Vienna (1935) 54
9. Popular Education, Science, and Politics (1936) 79
10. Josef Redlich (1936) 91
11. Austria and the Studies Conference (1937) 96
12. Changes in the Ideas of Government and Constitution in Austria since 1918 (1937) 99
13. Expression of Opinion and Opinion Formation (1937) 111
14. What May People Be Allowed to Know ? (1937) 115
15. The New Style of Warfare (1937) 120
16. Flight into Work (1937) 123
17. On Sander's General Political Science (1938) 126
Index 161
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