Autobiographical Reflections
Eric Voegelin
Edited with an Introduction by Ellis Sandoz
Autobiographical Reflections is a window into the mind of a man
whose reassessment of the nature of history and thought has overturned
traditional approaches to, and appraisals of, the Western intellectual
tradition. Here we encounter the motivations for Voegelin's work, the stages
in the development of his unique philosophy of consciousness, his key
intellectual breakthroughs, his theory of history, and his diagnosis of the
political ills of the modern age.
"We are indeed fortunate that one of the twentieth century's authentic
titans in philosophy and history thought to set down his autobiographical
reflections before his passing. It is hard to imagine a more lustrous
and also engrossing memoir."--Robert Nisbet
"A valuable introduction for any student of Voegelin, being, as it is,
nothing less than Voegelin's own account of the intellectual
influences that went into hte making of his great work, Order and
History. We are indebted to Ellis Sandoz."--Walker Percy
About the Author
Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) was one of the most original and
influential philosophers of our time. Born in Cologne, Germany,
he studied at the University of Vienna, where he became a
professor of political science in the Faculty of Law. In 1938, he
and his wife, fleeing Hitler, emigrated to the United States.
They became American citizens in 1944. Voegelin spent much of his
career at Louisiana State University, the University of Munich,
and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. During his
lifetime he published many books and more than one hundred
articles. The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin will make
available in a uniform edition all of Voegelin's major writings.
About the Editor
Ellis Sandoz, Hermann Moyse Jr. Distinguished Professor of
Political Science, is Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute for
American Renaissance Studies at Louisiana State University. He is
the general editor of Voegelin's History of Political Ideas and
author or editor of numerous books, including The
Roots of Liberty: Magna Carta, Ancient Constitution, and the Anglo-American Tradition
of Rule of Law and The Politics of Truth and Other
Untimely Essays: The Crisis of Civic Consciousness.
The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin
1989. ISBN 0-8071-2076-6, $16.95s paper.
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