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The Recurrence of the End Times: Voegelin, Hegel, and the Stop-History Movements

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  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

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The Recurrence of the End Times: Voegelin, Hegel, and the Stop-History Movements explores the deep connection between modern political ideologies and the secular eschatological hopes and dreams of a post-Christian society. Focusing primarily upon the thought of 20th century German émigré political scientist Eric Voegelin, the book argues that we cannot understand the globalized world in which we live unless we appreciate the lasting influence of the various End of History speculators--specifically, G.W.F Hegel, Alexandre Kojève, and Francis Fukuyama. Through a Voegelinian lens, he dissects the relationship between these three thinkers, also claiming that while Voegelin may have misunderstood Hegel, his critiques of the Hegelian approach to history offer fresh and important perspectives on the contemporary world. This makes a forceful argument that the idea of history as a teleological path, leading toward some goal--whether perfect harmony between nations, a technocratic utopia, a return to some romanticized idyllic "state of nature," or what Kojève and Fukuyama called the "universal and homogenous State"--has vast, and perverse, implications for the trajectory of American foreign and domestic policy.
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Jesus and the Future: Understanding What He Taught about the End TimesThe Recurrence of the End Times: Voegelin, Hegel, and the Stop-History Movements

  • Title

    The Recurrence of the End Times: Voegelin, Hegel, and the Stop-History Movements

  • Author

    Michael J. Colebrook

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

  • Published

    June 2022

  • Weight

    473g

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781793651341

  • ISBN-10

    1793651345

  • Eden Code

    5684541

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