Article: Eric Voegelin and the Foundations of Modern Political Science. & The Politics of Truth and Other Untimely Essays: The Crisis of Civic Consciousness.(Review)

Eric Voegelin and the Foundations of Modern Political Science. By Barry Cooper. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. 478p. $44.95.

The Politics of Truth and Other Untimely Essays: The Crisis of Civic Consciousness. By Ellis Sandoz. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. 250p. $39.95.

These two books are by students of the scholarship of Eric Voegelin. The first aspires to clarify the premises of his philosophy. The second aims to apply his insights to the analysis of contemporary political problems.

Cooper's book is an intellectual biography. It starts with Voegelin's attacks on the Nazi race idea in 1933 and leads up to his seminal theoretical ...

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