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Race and State

副标题: (The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 2)

ISBN: 9780807118429

出版社: Louisiana State University Press

出版年: November 1997

页数: 272pages

定价: $39.95

装帧: HRD

内容简介


"The best historical account of race-thinking in the pattern of a `history of ideas."'--Hannah Arendt from Origins of Totalitarianism

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 new perspective.

In Part I Voegelin analyzes contemporary race theories by placing the question of race in the context of the more comprehensive philoiophical problem of the interrelationships of body, mind, and soul. He demonstrates the intellectual shortcomings and theoretical fallacies of current theories; more important, he contributes to the development of a modern philosophical anthropology that aims, as Helmuth Plessner put it in a review of Race and State, "at a concept of the human being that does justice to its multilayered existence as a physical, vital, psychic, and intellectual being, without making one of these layers the measure and explanatory basis for the others."

In Part II Voegelin deals with race ideas, which he distinguishes from race theories. Race ideas, like other political ideas, form a part of political reality itself, contributing to the formation of social groups and societies. Voegelin shows that the modern race idea is just one "body ideal" among others, such as the tribal state and the Kingdom of Christ, each offering a different symbolic image of community. He traces the rise of the modem race idea, analyzes its function to structure community, and offers an answer to the question of why race ideas became successful in Germany.

Voegelin's meticulous sifting of all the Nazi race literature finally arrives at this blunt statement regarding its overall validity: "In order to preclude even the slightest possibility of a misunderstanding, let us again point out emphatically that the contrasting descriptions of the Semitic and the Aryan, the Jewish and the German character . . . contain little that is true about the nature of Jewishness."

作者简介


About the Author

Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) was one of the most original and influential philosophers of our time. Born in Cologne, Germany, he studied at the University of Vienna, where he became a professor of political science in the Faculty of Law. In 1938, he and his wife, fleeing Hitler, emigrated to the United States. They became American citizens in 1944. Voegelin spent much of his career at Louisiana State University, the University of Munich, and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. During his lifetime he published many books and more than one hundred articles. The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin will make available in a uniform edition all of Voegelin's major writings.

About the Editor

Klaus Vondung is professor of German literature at the University of Siegen.

目录


Editor's Introduction ix
Introduction
§1. Man and the State 1
§2. Race Theory and Race Idea 8
PART 1
THE SYSTEMATIC CONTENT OF RACE THEORY
1. Body桽oul桵ind 19
2. Race as Biological Unit 37
3. Race as Anthropological Unit 56
4. The Soul-Characteristics of Races 64
§1. Review of the Premises 64
§2. Soul, Mind, Culture (Lenz) 71
§3. Characteristics and Traits (Scheidt) 76
§4. The Psychical Type of a Race (Lenz, Günther) 83
§5. Race as Form Idea [ Gestalt-Idee ] (Clauss) 90
5. The Race Theory of Othmar Spann 102
PART II
THE RACE IDEA AND THE STRUCTURE OF COMMUNITY
1. Idea and Community 117
2. The Body Idea 122
3. Two Major Cases of Body Ideas: The Classical Tribal State
and the Kingdom of Christ 128
4. The Idea of the Particularist Community 142
5. The Expansion of the Horizon Through History 154
6. Race and State 167
7. The Jews as Counteridea 180
8. The Nordic Idea 207
Index 223
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