Beginning the Quest: Law and Politics in the Early Works of Eric Voegelin (ERIC VOEGELIN INST SERIES) [Hardcover]

Barry Cooper (Author)

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Publication Date: June 26, 2009 | ISBN-10: 0826218547 | ISBN-13: 978-0826218544 | Edition: First

This analysis of Voegelin s legal and political writings during the 1920s and 1930s opens with Voegelin s efforts, following the trauma of defeat in World War I, at understanding the relation of law and the study of law (Staatslehre) to what he then called sociohistorical reality. Cooper examines Voegelin s The Authoritarian State (1936), which argues that Austria was more an administrative unit than a body politic. As a final point, Cooper deals with the concept of political religions that Voegelin developed in the 1938 book of that name. The crisis resulting in World War II led Voegelin to develop ever-more-comprehensive accounts of the disorder and political convulsions of the day. The quest of the title of this study continued until Voegelin s death.

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About the Author

Barry Cooper is Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary and the author, editor, or coeditor of numerous books, including Eric Voegelin and the Foundations of Modern Political Science and Voegelin Recollected: Conversations on a Life (both available from the University of Missouri Press).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press; First edition (June 26, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0826218547
• ISBN-13: 978-0826218544
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
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