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Volume VI of Voegelin's account of the history of Western political ideas continues from the point reached in the previous volume with the study of the mystic-philosopher Jean Bodin. Voegelin begins with a discussion of the conflict between Bishop Bossuet and Voltaire concerning the relationship between what is conventionally identified as sacred history and profane history. Bossuet maintained the traditional Christian position, the origin of which may be traced to Saint Augustine's City of God. Voegelin shows, however, that while Bossuet may have been heir to an adequate understanding of human existence, Voltaire drew attention to a series of historical facts, such as the comparative size of the Russian and Roman empires, the existence of Chinese civilization, and the discovery of the New World, that could be incorporated into Bossuet's account only with great difficulty or not at all.

For the first time, the theoretical problem of the historicity of evocative symbols of political order becomes the focus of Voegelin's analysis. This major problem, which found a provisional solution in the New Science of Vico, was intertwined with several additional ones that may be summarized in terms of an increasing closure toward what Voegelin calls the world- transcendent ground of reality. Voegelin traces the consequences of the new attitudes and sentiments in terms of an increasing disorientation in personal, social, and political life, a disorientation that was expressed in increasingly impoverished experiences and accounts of history and of nature.

Vico represents the great exception to this decline in the intellectual adequacy of modern political ideas and modern self- understanding. Readers familiar with Voegelin's New Science of Politics will find in the long, challenging, and brilliant chapter on Vico and his New Science one of the major textual analyses that sustained Voegelin's entire intellectual enterprise. Indeed, the chapter on Vico, along with similarly provocative and insightful chapters on Bodin and on Schelling in other volumes, may almost be read as an element of Voegelin's own spiritual autobiography.

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

Barry Cooper is Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 1, On the Form of the American Mind.

Editor's Introduction I
Part Six. Revolution
1. Apostasy 31
§1. The Rearticulation of the Christian Era 31
§2. Bossuet and Voltaire 34
a. Bossuet's Universal History
b. Secularized History
c. The Relevance of Rome
d. Voltaire's Universal History
§3. The Reconstruction of Historical Meaning 40
The Esprit Humain as the Object of History
b. Intramundane Sacred History
c. The Structure of Intramundane History
§4. The Continuity of Christian with Intramundane Problems 44
a. The Variations of Intramundane History
b. Bossuet's Histoire des variations des Églises protestantes
c. The Libre Examen
d. Bossuet's Conférence avec M. Claude
§5. The Dynamics of Secularization 51
a. The Dissociation of the Western Universalisms
b. The Phases of Dissociation
c. First and Second Phases: Spiritual Destruction and Respiritualization
d. Third Phase: The Authority of the Church and the Christian Symbols
§6. Voltaire's Attack 57
a. The Éléments de philosophie de Newton
b. God and the Soul
c. The Foundation of Ethics
d. The Meaning of Reason
e. Philosophical Sectarianism
f. The Realm between the Spirits
g. Compassion
2. The Schismatic Nations 71
§1. The Vacuum of Reason 71
§2. The Irritation of Parochialism 72
§3. The Schismatic Cosmion 73
a. The Spiritual Closure of the National Cosmion
b. The French Case
c. The English Case
d. The German Case
§4. The Time Structure of the Closing Process 78
a. The Problem of Closure
b. The English-French Time Structure
c. The French-German Time Structure
d. The Results
3. Giambattista Vico-- La scienza nuova 82
§1. Italian Politics 82
a. City-State and National State
b. Italian "Decadence"
c. Municipalization and Emigration
§2. The Work of Vico 85
a. Style and Mode Expression
b. The Secularist Interpretation
c. The Meditative Character of the Work
d. The Phases of the Meditation
§3. The Idea of a New Science 93
a. Ambivalence and Pathos
b. Reversal of the Apostatic Movement
§4. The Steps of the Meditation 96
a. Verum Est Factum
b. The Philological Origin
c. The Conjecture on the Pagan Level
d. The Christian Level
e. Neoplatonism
§5. The Continuum of Western Ideas 102
§6. The Model of Nature 104
a. The Metaphysical Point and the Conatus
b. The Systematic Function of the Model
c. The Attack on Phenomenalism
d. The Attack on the Cogito
e. The Transfer of the Model to History
§7. The Mondo Civile 109
a. The Science of History
b. Vico's Anthropology
c. The Autonomy of the Spirit
d. The Recursus
§8. Recursus and Ricorso 116
a. The Problem in the Diritto universale
b. The Problem in the "First" Scienza nuova
c. The Problem in the "Third" Scienza nuova
d. Vico and Saint Augustine
§9. The Storia Eterna Ideale
a. Formulation of the Principle
b. The Historicity of the Mind
c. Providential contemplation
126
§10. The Senso Commune 132
a. Positive Definitions
b. Critical Clarification
c. History and Philosophy of Humanity
§11. The Political Structure of the Corso 137
a. Stato Ferino and Divine Age
b. The Heroic Age
c. The Human Age
d. Summarizing Characterization of the Corso
e. The Mente Eroica
§12. Conclusion 144
4. The English Quest for the Concrete 149
§1. The Model Polity 150
a. A Stagnant Population
b. Gin
c. The Purge of the Church
d. Warburton's Political Sermons
e. The Gladstone-Newman Controversy
§2. The Loss of the Concrete 163
a. Materialization of the External World
b. Psychologization of the Self
c. Culverwel's Reason
d. Whichcote's Reason
e. Locke's Reason
f. Locke's Reasonableness of Christianity
Toland's Christianity Not Mysterious
§3. Absolute Space and Relativity 183
a. Relativity from Copernicus to Leibnitz
b. Galileo's Conflict with the Inquisition
c. Newton's Assumption of Absolute Space
d. The Influence of Henry More
e. Berkeley's Psychological Criticism
f. The Deadlock
g. Leibniz
h. The Problem of the Rotating Star
i Science, Power, and Magic
j. The Pathos of Science and Spiritual Eunuchs
Index 217
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