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Science, Politics and Gnosticism comprises two essays by Eric Voegelin (1901-85), arguably one of the most provocative and influential political philosophers of the last century. In these essays, Voegelin contends that certain modern movements, including positivism, Hegelianism, Marxism, and the "God is dead" school, are variants of the gnostic tradition he identified in his classic work The New Science of Politics. Voegelin attempts to resolve the...
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Authored by two eminent Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn scholars, “The Soul and Barbed Wire” is the first and only book to offer both a detailed biography and a comprehensive appraisal of the literary achievement of the Nobel prize—winning author who became one of the Soviet regime's most formidable foes.
The book begins with a detailed biographical survey that traces Solzhenitsyn's evolution from an ardent Communist and loyal Soviet front-line officer...
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