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Transcendence and History: The Search for Ultimacy from Ancient Societies to Postmodernity (Volume 1) (The Eric Voegelin Institu,Used
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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 selfunderstanding. The worlds 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 postcosmological 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 situationboth popular and intellectualindicate 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, assisting in the philosophical recovery of the legitimacy of the notion of transcendence. Depending primarily on the treatments of transcendence found in the writings of twentiethcentury 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. Hughess 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 considerable advantage.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, and art or poetry. By examining transcendent meaning as the key factor in the search for ultimate meaning from ancient societies to the present, the book demonstrates how the decisive problem of philosophy both illuminates and presents a vital challenge to contemporary intellectual discourse.
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