Description
Book SynopsisThis book is a study of Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) and of the role played by metaxy in his vision of political philosophy. Metaxy, already defined by Plato as the in-between matrix of the human condition, is for Voegelin a powerful notion that symbolizes the intermediate state in which man experiences diverse and opposing tensions such as the ones between immanence and transcendence or mortality and immortality. The metaxy constitutes the realm of the divine-human mutual participation (methexis), and its locus resides in human consciousness (nous), there where the divine reality manifests itself as the origin of being. Being the field of intermediation between opposing forces, man has to keep the balance of consciousness in order to differentiate the noetic and pneumatic dimensions and so attune his life to the divine ground of being. This book claims that for Voegelin metaxy shapes the possibility of the philosophical, historical, political
Table of Contents
Introduction – Hermeneutics of Metaxy – The Role of Philosophical Meditation – Metaxological Philosophy of Consciousness – The New Science of History – The New Science of Political Philosophy – The Metaxology of Religion – Towards Metaxological Philosophy – General Conclusion – Bibliography –Index.
