FROM MEANING OF HISTORY TO MEANING IN HISTORY: ERIC VOEGELIN’S NON-IDEOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
FROM MEANING OF HISTORY TO MEANING IN HISTORY: ERIC VOEGELIN’S NON-IDEOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
Author(s): Bogdan IvascuSubject(s): History of Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Special Branches of Philosophy
Published by: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk i Fundacja Filozofia na Rzecz Dialogu
Keywords: Voegelin; ideology; philosophy of history; order
Summary/Abstract: The paper intends to examine Eric Voegelin’s philosophy of history, distinguishing its several stages. The main thesis of the paper is that Voegelin’s philosophy of history is atypical when compared to the famous representatives of the genus. For Voegelin “meaning of history” is a perverted, ideological concept, obscuring the real relationship between man and history because man cannot grasp its “meaning” from a vantage point. Voegelin attempts to provide history rather as a “web” endowed with a “noumenal depth,” rather than the linear, “historiogenetic” history, subdued to chronology. The main characteristic of history is no longer its chronological structure but its structure of an “experience of an encounter.”
Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 197-215
- Page Count: 19
- Language: English
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