On the Form of the American Mind (The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 1)

In 1924, not quite two years after receiving his doctorate from the University of Vienna, Eric Voegelin was named a Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fellow and thus given the opportunity to pursue postdoctoral studies in the United States. For the next twenty-four months, Voegelin worked with some of the most creative scholars in America and at several of the country's great universities, an experience that undoubtedly influenced his scholarly and personal perspectives throughout his life. A more immediate result was the publication in 1928 of On the Form of the American Mind, the young philosopher's first major work, in which his acute perceptions and analyses combine with a conceptual vocabulary struggling to find its own coherence and form. Voegelin begins his inquiry into the form of the American mind with a complex discussion of the concepts of time and existence in European and American philosophy and continues with an extended interpretation of George Santayana, a study of the Puritan mystic Jonathan Edwards, a presentation on Anglo-American jurisprudence, and a consideration of the historian, economist, and political scientist John R. Commons (Voegelin was particularly interested in Commons' views on the mental, political, social, and economic aspects of democracy in modern urban and industrial America). Although admitting that this diversity of themes seems only loosely connected," Voegelin demonstrates the actual overall unity of these various subjects: each concerns linguistic expressions of a theoretical nature. Analysis of On the Form of the American Mind indicates that Voegelin integrated the approaches of Lebensphilosophie into what Georg Misch called the "philosophical combination of anthropology and history," which characterized contemporary trends within the discourse of the Geisteswissenschaften and finally resulted in a theoretical paradigm of philosophical anthropology. Jürgen Gebhardt and Barry Cooper provide access to this brilliant study with their two-part introduction. The first part considers On the Form of the American Mind in the context of methodological debates ongoing in Germany at the time Voegelin was writing the book; the second describes Voegelin's American experience and compares his work with similar studies written during the post-World War I period. 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On the form of American mind - 0331 v. 1. On the form of the American mind v. 2. Race and state v. 3. The history of the race idea v. 4. The authoritarian state / translated from the German by Ruth Hein ; edited with an introduction by Gilbert Weiss ; historical commentary on the period by Erika Weinzierl v. 5. Modernity without restraint v. 6. Anamnesis on the theory of history and politics v. 7. Published essays, 1922-1928 v. 8. Published essays, 1929-1933 v. 9. Published essays, 1934-1939 v. 10. Published essays, 1940-1952 v. 11. Published essays, 1953-1965 v. 12. Published essays, 1966-1985 v. 13. Selected book reviews v. 14. Order and history. Israel and Revelation v. 15. Order and history. The world of the polis v. 16. Order and history. Plato and Aristotle v. 17. Order and history. The ecumenic age v. 18. Order and history. In search of order v. 19-26. History of political ideas v. 27. The nature of the law and related legal writings v. 28. What is history? and other late unpublished writings v. 31. Hitler and the Germans v. 32. The theory of governance and other miscellaneous papers, 1921-1938 v. 33. The drama of humanity and other miscellaneous papers, 1939-1985 In The History of the Race Idea: From Ray to Carus, Eric Voegelin places the rise of the race idea in the context of the development of modern philosophy. The history of the race idea, according to Voegelin, begins with the post-Christian orientation toward a natural system of living forms. In the late seventeenth century, philosophy set about a new task - to oppose the devaluation of man's physical nature. By the middle of the eighteenth century the effort of philosophy was to place man, with his variety of physical manifestations throughout the world, within a systemic order of nature. Voegelin perceives the problem of race as the epitome of the difficulties presented by this new theoretical approach.