LEADER 03728nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910963015503321 005 20251110212038.0 010 $a0-8262-6393-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000001524 035 $a(EBL)3570654 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000215950 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12025028 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000215950 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10194656 035 $a(PQKB)11378265 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3570654 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3570654 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10001678 035 $a(OCoLC)932325402 035 $a(BIP)11494272 035 $a(BIP)6389999 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000001524 100 $a20020130d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWorld of the Polis /$fedited with an introduction by Athanasios Moulakis 205 $a[New ed.] 210 $aColumbia, Mo. ;$aLondon $cUniversity of Missouri Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (x, 477 pages) 225 1 $aOrder and history ;$vv. 2 225 1 $aThe collected works of Eric Voegelin ;$vv. 15 300 $aPrevious (i.e. 1st) ed.: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1974. 311 0 $a0-8262-1283-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Contents""; ""Editor's Introduction""; ""Preface""; ""analytical table of contents""; ""Introduction Mankind and History""; ""Index"" 330 $aThis second volume of Voegelin's magisterial Order and History, The World of the Polis, explores the ancient Greek symbolization of human reality. Taking us from the origins of Greek culture in the Pre Homeric Cretan civilizations, through the Iliad and Odyssey, Hesiod, and the rise of philosophy with the Pre Socratics Parmenides and Heraclitus, this masterful work concludes with the historians of the classical period. In The World of the Polis, Voegelin traces the emergence of the forms of the city state and of philosophy from the ancient symbolism of myth. He maintains that the limits and ultimate goals of human nature are constant and that the central problem of every society is the same"to create an order that will endow the fact of its existence with meaning in terms of ends divine and human." Thus, Voegelin shows how "the meaning of existence" achieved concrete expression in the typical political, social, and religious institutions of Greece and in the productions of its poets and thinkers. He deals with more than fifty Greek writers in the course of his analysis of the rise of myth and its representation of the divine order of the cosmos as the first great symbolic form of order, one later supplanted by the leap in being reflected in the emergence of philosophy. The book is a tour de force, a virtuoso performance by a scholar and philosopher of great power, learning, and imagination that places its subject matter in a new light. The editor's critical introduction places The World of the Polis in the broader context of Voegelin's philosophy of history. Scholars and students of political science, philosophy, and the history of ideas will find this work invaluable. 410 0$aCollected Works of Eric Voegelin 606 $aCivilization$xPhilosophy 606 $aOrder (Philosophy) 615 0$aCivilization$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aOrder (Philosophy) 676 $a901 700 $aVoegelin$b Eric$f1901-1985.$0143375 701 $aMoulakis$b Athanasios$f1945-2015.$0155390 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910963015503321 996 $aWorld of the Polis$94453116 997 $aUNINA