The Role of Metaxy in the Political Philosophy of Eric Voegelin

Cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
	1. Nature of the Research
	2. Our Author of Reference
	3. Relevance and Motivation
	4. Methodology
	5. Expected Results
	6. Structure
1. Hermeneutics of Metaxy
	1.1. Methodological Considerations
	1.2. Plato and Metaxy
		1.2.1. Plato’s Heritage
		1.2.2. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
		1.2.3. Metaxy: Etymology and Exegesis
	1.3. Metaxy Beyond Classical Thought
		1.3.1. Toward the Diachronical Understanding
		1.3.2. Philosophy of Metaxy in Simone Weil
		1.3.3. Metaxological Philosophy of William Desmond
	1.4. The Approach of Eric Voegelin
		1.4.1. Eric Voegelin as a Philosopher
		1.4.2. From Historiogenesis to Philosophy of History
		1.4.3. Hermeneutical Spiral: Return to the Classics
		1.4.4. Principles of Critical Historiography
		1.4.5. Voegelin’s Interpretation of Metaxy
	1.5. Summary
2. The Role of Philosophical Meditation
	2.1. Historical Forms of Philosophical Meditation
		2.1.1. Plato and Philosophical Vision
		2.1.2. Aristotle and Contemplative Life
		2.1.3. Augustinian Meditation: “Inquietum Cor Nostrum”
		2.1.4. Descartes and Meditationes
		2.1.5. Bergson and Metaphysical Intuition
		2.1.6. The Problem of Husserl’s Phenomenology
		2.1.7. Scheler: “Das Zwischen” and “Imago Dei”
	2.2. Metaxological Meditation in Voegelin
		2.2.1. Philosophical Meditation as “Grundform”
		2.2.2. Between Meditation and Anamnetic Exegesis
		2.2.3. Noetic and Pneumatic Meditation
		2.2.4. Meditation as Reflective Distance
		2.2.5. Meditation as “Fides Quaerens Intellectum”
	2.3. Summary
3. Metaxological Philosophy of Consciousness
	3.1. Metaxic Structure of Consciousness
		3.1.1. The Paradox of Consciousness
		3.1.2. The Meditative Complex: “Consciousness-Reality-Language”
		3.1.3. Intentionality and “Thing-Reality”
		3.1.4. Luminosity and “It-Reality”
		3.1.5. Reflective Distance
	3.2. Differentiations of Consciousness
		3.2.1. Tension of Reality and Leap in Being
		3.2.2. Noetic Differentiation of Consciousness
		3.2.3. Pneumatic Differentiation of Consciousness
		3.2.4. Imagination and Balance of Consciousness
		3.2.5. Metaxic Consciousness and Linguistic Indices
	3.3. Metaxological Philosophy of Consciousness
		3.3.1. Intentionalist Consciousness
		3.3.2. Between Noetic and Pneumatic Consciousness
		3.3.3. Existential Consciousness
		3.3.4. Participatory Consciousness
		3.3.5. Horizon of Consciousness
	3.4. Summary
4. The New Science of History
	4.1. Historical Reality and the Nature of Truth
		4.1.1. The Types of Truth
		4.1.2. Historical Reality and Truth of Metaxy
		4.1.3. Philosophy versus Philodoxy
	4.2. From Historiogenesis to Philosophy of History
		4.2.1. Historiogenesis and the Meaning of History
		4.2.2. Hermeneutics of Symbolizations and Equivalences in History
		4.2.3. Meditative Philosophy of History
		4.2.4. Metaxological Philosophy of History
	4.3. Summary
5. The New Science of Political Philosophy
	5.1. From Philosophical Anthropology to Political Philosophy
		5.1.1. Anthropological Principle: Man as Microcosmos
		5.1.2. “Imago Dei”: Theomorphic Structure of Man
		5.1.3. Towards Metaxological Anthropology
		5.1.4. The New Science of Political Reality
	5.2. The Problem of Gnosticism, Modernity and Political Religions
		5.2.1. Between Gnosticism and Apocalypse
		5.2.2. “Immanentization of Eschaton” and “Metastatic Apocalypse”
		5.2.3. Eclipse of Reality and Dogmatomachy
		5.2.4. From “Libido Dominandi” to “Egophanic Revolt”
		5.2.5. Modern Ideologies as Political Religions
	5.3. Summary
6. The Metaxology of Religion
	6.1. Theophanic Engendering Experiences in Metaxy
	6.2. From the Mystery of the Unknown God to Incarnated Logos
	6.3. The Divine Ground of Being and Order of Reality
	6.4. The Divine Parousia and Pleromatic Metaxy
	6.5. The Sense of Imperfection and Religious Transformation
	6.6 .Summary
7. Towards Metaxological Philosophy
	7.1 .The Role of Metaxy in Voegelin’s Philosophy
	7.2 .Metaxological Philosophy and the Problem of Modernity
	7.3. Towards Plurivocal Metaxology
	7.4. Summary
General Conclusion
Bibliography
Index