Race and State is the second of five books that Eric Voegehn wrote before his emigration to the United States from Austria in 1938. First published in Germany in 1933, the year Hitler came to power, the study was prompted in part by the rise of national socialism during the preceding year. Yet Voegelin neither descended to the level of contemporary debates on race nor dismissed these debates by way of value judgments. Although still young when he wrote this book, Voegelin already demonstrates his singular analytical capacity as well as his ability to put political phenomena into a...
Race and State is the second of five books that Eric Voegehn wrote before his emigration to the United States from Austria in 1938. First pu...
At the age of twenty-one, Arnon Tamir was deported to Poland from his home in Germany. "A Journey Back "describes Tamir's life in Germany, his deportation, and two return trips to Germany: in 1959 to clarify his reparations claim, and thirty years later, at the invitation of the city of Stuttgart. As Tamir interweaves memories from different times and places, he draws startling comparisons between his own experiences of oppression and exile, and his life as one of the new settlers in Palestine, themselves responsible for forcing the Arabs from their native land. Tamir's fluid narrative shows...
At the age of twenty-one, Arnon Tamir was deported to Poland from his home in Germany. "A Journey Back "describes Tamir's life in Germany, his deporta...
At the age of twenty-one, Arnon Tamir was deported to Poland from his home in Germany. "A Journey Back "describes Tamir's life in Germany, his deportation, and two return trips to Germany: in 1959 to clarify his reparations claim, and thirty years later, at the invitation of the city of Stuttgart. As Tamir interweaves memories from different times and places, he draws startling comparisons between his own experiences of oppression and exile, and his life as one of the new settlers in Palestine, themselves responsible for forcing the Arabs from their native land. Tamir's fluid narrative shows...
At the age of twenty-one, Arnon Tamir was deported to Poland from his home in Germany. "A Journey Back "describes Tamir's life in Germany, his deporta...
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 postChristian 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...
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 mod...
