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Body Ideas and Political Communities in Eric Voegelin’s Early Work on Race
Series: - Eric Voegelin Studies: Yearbook, Volume: 3
Eric Voegelin’s "Rassenbücher", both published in Germany only a few months apart in the tumultuous year of 1933, had until recently received relatively limited attention. These works were often considered merely a youthful episode preceding Voegelin's American exile. However, this perception has dramatically changed in recent times. On the one hand, the systematic analysis carried out in these works has finally been acknowledged for its complexity and has been integrated into the larger, never-completed project of a "Theory of Government". The unconventional aims of this project remained pivotal to Voegelin's later work. On the other hand, the renewed importance of corporeality and the concept of race in contemporary political thought encourages a closer investigation of the role played by bodily ideas in the formation of political communities. This prompts the question of whether Voegelin's concepts can be applied to broader geographical and historical contexts.
Der vorliegende Band ruft zu einer aktualisierten Auseinandersetzung mit den Schriften auf, die Eric Voegelin zwischen 1933 und 1940 in Deutschland und in den USA über das damals brennende Rassenthema verfasste. Die Beiträge verfolgen dabei zwei unterschiedliche Ziele: Zum einen versuchen sie diese Schriften historisch einzuordnen und ihre systematische Vielfalt herauszuheben, zum anderen testen sie die hermeneutische Tragweite ihrer Hauptkategorien – die der „Leibideen“ und die der „politischen Gemeinschaften“ – in aktuelleren soziologischen Kontexten und in unterschiedlichen geographischen Gebieten.
Nicoletta Scotti Muth teaches History of Ancient Metaphysics at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Milan. Her research focuses on Plato, Aristotle and Neoplatonism. Bernat Torres Morales teaches Ancient Philosophy and Philosophical Anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities of the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya. His research focuses on Plato.