{"product_id":"9780826212290","title":"Eric Voegelin and the Foundations of Modern Political Science","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis important new work is a major analysis of the foundation of Eric Voegelin's political science. Barry Cooper maintains that the writings Voegelin undertook in the 1940s provide the groundwork for the brilliant book that is one of his best known, \u003ci\u003eThe New Science of Politics.\u003c\/i\u003e At the time of that book's publication, however, few were aware of the enormous knowledge and accomplished scholarship that lay behind its illuminating, although sometimes baffling, formulations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy focusing on several of the key chapters in Voegelin's eight- volume \u003ci\u003eHistory of Political Ideas,\u003c\/i\u003e especially the studies of Bodin, Vico, and Schelling, Cooper shows how those studies provide the basis for Voegelin's thought. Investigating Voegelin's study of Oriental influences on Western political \"ideas,\" especially Mongol constitutional law, and his study of Toynbee, Cooper seeks to demonstrate the vast range of materials Voegelin used.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCooper contends that, as with other great thinkers, political crisis, specifically the world war of 1939-1945, stimulated Voegelin's intellectual and spiritual achievement. He provides an analysis of Voegelin's immediate concern with the course of World War II, his ability to understand those dramatic events in a large context, and his ability to provide an insightful account of the causes, the significance, and the consequences of the spiritual and political disorder that was evident all around him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eEric Voegelin and the Foundations of Modern Political Science,\u003c\/i\u003e Cooper makes the connection between Voegelin's political writings of the 1940s and the meditative interpretations that began to appear with the publication of \u003ci\u003eAnamnesis\u003c\/i\u003e and with the later volumes of \u003ci\u003eOrder and History\u003c\/i\u003e much more intelligible than does any existing discussion of Voegelin. Scholars in intellectual history and political science will benefit enormously from this valuable new addition to Voegelin studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Missouri Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011985686768,"sku":"9780826212290","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780826212290_p0.jpg?v=1763752878","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780826212290","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}