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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction / Lee Trepanier and Steven F. McGuire -- 1. "Out of Such Crooked Wood" : How Eric Voegelin Read Immanuel Kant / Thomas W. Heilke -- 2. Voegelin and the Troubled Greatness of Hegel / Cyril O'Regan -- 3. Voegelin and Schelling on Freedom and the Beyond / Steven F. McGuire -- 4. Noesis and Faith: Eric Voegelin and Søren Kierkegaard / Eugen L. Nagy -- 5. Dionysus versus the Crucified: Nietzsche and Voegelin and the Search for a Truthful Order / Rouven J. Steeves -- 6. Eric Voegelin and Neo-Kantianism: Early Formative Experience or Late Entrapment? / Arpad Szakolczai -- 7. Voegelin and Heidegger: Apocalypse without Apocalypse / David Walsh -- 8. Voegelin and Gadamer: Continental Philosophers Inspired by Plato and Aristotle / Fred Lawrence -- 9. Voegelin, Strauss, and Kojève on Tyranny / Barry Cooper -- 10. The Paradoxes of Participatory Reality / Lee Trepanier -- Contributors -- Index.

Twentieth-century political philosopher Eric Voegelin is best known as a severe critic of modernity. Much of his work argues that modernity is a Gnostic revolt against the fundamental structure of reality. For Voegelin, "Gnosticism" is the belief that human beings can transform the nature of reality through secret knowledge and social action, and he considered it the crux of the crisis of modernity. As Voegelin struggled with this crisis throughout his career, he never wavered in his judgment that philosophers of the modern continental tradition were complicit in the Gnostic revolt of modernity