Order and History

Name: Order and History
Author: Eric Voegelin

by Eric Voegelin

Multi-volume history of civilizations and their spiritual and political ordering

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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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