Skip to search
Skip to main content
Catalog
Help
Feedback
Your Account
Library Account
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Search History
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
Transcendence and history : the search for ultimacy from ancient societies to postmodernity / Glenn Hughes.
Author
Hughes, Glenn, 1951-
[Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Columbia and London : University of Missouri Press, ©2003.
Description
xi, 249 pages ; 24 cm.
Availability
Available Online
Ebook Central Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles
Copies in the Library
Location
Call Number
Status
Location Service
Notes
Forrestal Annex - A
BD362 .H84 2003
Browse related items
Request
Details
Subject(s)
Transcendence (Philosophy)
—
History
[Browse]
Voegelin, Eric 1901-1985
[Browse]
Lonergan, Bernard J. F.
[Browse]
Series
Eric Voegelin Institute series in political philosophy
[More in this series]
Summary note
Annotation Transcendence and History is an analysis of what philosopher Eric Voegelin described as "the decisive problem of philosophy": the dilemma of the discovery of transcendent meaning and the impact of this discovery on human self-understanding. The explicit recognition and symbolization of transcendent meaning originally occurred in a few avanced civilizations worldwide during the first millennium B.C.E. The world's major religious and wisdom traditions are built upon the recognition of transcendent meaning, and our own cultural and linguistic heritage has long since absorbed the post-cosmological division of reality into the two dimensions of "transcendence" and "immanence." But the last three centuries in the West have seen a growing resistance to the idea of transcendent meaning; contemporary and "postmodern" interpretations of the human situation--both popular and intellectual--indicate a widespread eclipse of confidence in the truth of transcendence. In Transcendence and History, Glenn Hughes contributes to the understanding of transcendent meaning and the problems associated with it and assists in the philosophical recovery of the legitimacy of the notion of transcendence. Depending primarily on the treatments of transcendence found in the writings of twentieth-century philosophers Eric Voegelin and Bernard Lonergan, Hughes explores the historical discovery of transcendent meaning and then examines what it indicates about the structure of history. Hughes's main focus, however, is on clarifying the problem of transcendence in relation to historical existence. Addressing both layreaders and scholars, Hughes applies the insights and analyses of Voegelin and Lonergan to considerableadvantage. Transcendence and History will be of particular value to those who have grappled with the notion of transcendence in the study of philosophy, comparative religion, political theory, history, philosophical anthropology.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-229) and index.
Contents
The problem of transcendence
The terror of history
History and transcendence
Deformations of history
Cosmopolis, culture, and art
Ezra Pound and the balance of consciousness
Cosmology : the problem of divine presence in the world
Anthropology : the problem of divine presence in human consciousness
Conclusion : The drama of universal humanity.
Show 6 more Contents items
ISBN
0826214762 ((alk. paper))
9780826214768 ((alk. paper))
LCCN
2003002537
OCLC
51652919
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Report Harmful Language
Supplementary Information
Other versions
Transcendence and History The Search for Ultimacy from Ancient Societies to Postmodernity / Glenn Hughes
id
99125345905106421
Transcendence and history : the search for ultimacy from ancient societies to postmodernity / Glenn Hughes.
id
SCSB-4799692