{"product_id":"eric-voegelins-dialogue-with-the-postmoderns-9780826215642","title":"Eric Voegelins Dialogue with the Postmoderns","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese essays endeavor to generate a dialogue between Eric Voegelin and other 20th-century thinkers and explore  issues in contemporary political theory. Each essay rests on the underlying question: is it possible or desirable to construct or discover political foundations without resorting to metaphysical or essentialist constructs?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume of essays explores a wonderfully fruitful are a in the field of Voegelin studies. These essays endeavor to examine the relationship of Voegelin's thought to that of significant postmodernists and their philosophical inspirers. The range of thinkers treated is representative and some of the essays break new ground in well-argued and convincing ways.-Glenn Hughes; \"\"Eric Voegelin's Dialogue with the Postmoderns will appeal to Voegelin scholars who wish to see the fruitful application of his philosophy to a variety of thinkers who, like him, seek an alternative both to traditional essentialist metaphysics and to modernist naturalism, subjectivism, and foundationalism. The variety of essays is enriching, and each is intriguing in its own right. A very important contribution to the literature on Eric Voegelin.\"\"-Thomas McPartland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Peter A. Petrakis and Cecil L. Eubanks; Voegelin and Levinas on the \"\"Foundations\"\" of Ethics and Politics (Transceridence and Immanence Revisited) by William P. Simmons; Immanence\/Transcendence: Deleuze and Voegelin on the Conditions for Political Order by Jeffrey A. Bell; Voegelin and Ricoeur: Recovering Science and Subjectivity through Representation by Peter A. Petrakis; Sight, Sound, and Participatory Symbolization: Eric Voegelin's Political Theory as an Attempt to Recapture the Speech-Dimension of Human Experience by Murray Jardine; Politics, Metaphysics, and Anti-Foundationalism in the Works of Eric Voegelin and Jan Patocka by Edward F. Findlay.","brand":"University of Missouri Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038747230551,"sku":"9780826215642","price":48.92,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780826215642.jpg?v=1750941287","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/eric-voegelins-dialogue-with-the-postmoderns-9780826215642","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}