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Selected Correspondence: 1950-1984 (Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 30) by Eric Voegelin, Thomas Hollweck (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This second volume of letters written by Eric Voegelin covers the period from 1950 through 1984. With few exceptions, the originals are to be found in the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University. Correspondents include Leo Strauss, Karl Löwith, Alfred Schütz, Aaron Gurwitsch, Hans Kelsen, Marshall McLuhan, Bertrand de Jouvenel, Arnold Toynbee, and Marie König, among others. Beginning at a time when Voegelin was working on a major theoretical breakthrough, reflected in the Walgreen Lectures at the University of Chicago and The New Science of Politics , the correspondence highlights the years of publication of the first four volumes of Order and History ; Voegelin’smove to Munich, where he founded and directed the university’s Institut für Politische Wissenschaft; and his years as Henry Salvatori Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution in Stanford from 1969 to 1974. Voegelin remained a tireless correspondent until the last years of his life. Voegelin’s Munich years, while not without controversy, can be seen as the most successful time in his life, as well as his most creative and prolific as a political philosopher. During that time, Voegelin worked on volume

Who reads Selected Correspondence: 1950-1984 (Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 30)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Eric Voegelin, Thomas Hollweck (editor)
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Published
2007
Language
EN
ISBN
9780826213044
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Social Science, Political Science, Science

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