From Enlightenment to Revolution

Name: From Enlightenment to Revolution
Author: Eric Voegelin

by Eric Voegelin

Historical study of intellectual developments from Enlightenment through revolutionary transformation

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Eric Voegelin

German-American political philosopher who diagnosed modernity's political disasters as expressions of Gnosticism—the attempt to immanentize the eschaton. Order and History is his massive, unfinished examination of the history of political thought. He is a central figure of American conservative political philosophy.

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Order and HistoryMulti-volume history of civilizations and their spiritual and political ordering
The New Science of PoliticsAnalysis of how political science understands human meaning and social order
Science, Politics and GnosticismCritique of totalitarian ideology and gnostic thinking in modern political movements
The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin