Modernity without Restraint: The Political Religions, the New Science of Politics, and Science, Politics, and Gnosticism
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Book title: Modernity without Restraint:The Political Religions, the New Science of Politics, and Science, Politics, and Gnosticism.
Contributors: Eric Voegelin - Author, Manfred Henningsen - Editor.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press.
Place of publication: Columbia, MO.
Publication year: 2000.
Page number: 77.
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Table of contents
- Title Page *
- Contents *
- Acknowledgements ix
- Editor's Introduction 1
- The Political Religions 19
- Contents 21
- Preface 23
- 1 - The Problem 27
- 2 - Akhenaton 34
- 3 - Hierarchy 42
- 4 - The Leviathan 53
- 5 - The Inner-Worldly Community 59
- 7 - Epilogue 70
- A Note on Sources 72
- The New Science of Politics - An Introduction 75
- Contents 77
- Foreword 79
- Acknowledgements 81
- Contents 83
- Introduction 88
- 1 - Representation and Existence 109
- 2 - Representation and Truth 129
- 3 - The Struggle for Representation in the Roman Empire 149
- 4 - Gnosticism the Nature of Modernity 175
- 5 - Gnostic Revolution the Puritan Case 196
- 6 - The End of Modernity 220
- Science, Politics, and Gnosticism - Two Essays 243
- Contents 245
- Preface to the American Edition 247
- Part I - Science, Politics, and Gnosticism 249
- 1 - Introduction 251
- 2 - Science, Politics, and Gnosticism 257
- 3 - The Murder of God 278
- 4 - Note on Hegel's “philosophy of World History” 290
- Part II - Ersatz Religion the Gnostic Mass Movements of Our Time 293
- Ersatz Religion 295
- Index 315
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