Eric Voegelin - The Theory of Governance and Other Miscellaneous Papers: 1921-1938

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF

ERIC VOEGELIN

VOLUME THE THEORY OF
GOVERNANCE AND OTHER
MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS 1921-1938 1 RANSLATED FROM TIIE GERMAN BY SUE BOLL A NS, JODI COCKERILL, M. |. HANAK,
INGRID HELDT, ELISABETH VON LOCHNER,
AND WILLIAM PETROPULOS EDITED WITH AN INI K O D UCTI O N B Y
WILLIAM PETROPULOS AND GILBERT WEISS ERIC VOEGELIN

VOLUME

THE THEORY OF GOVERNANCE
AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS
PAPERS, 1921-1938

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PROJECTED VOLUMES IN THE COLLECTED WORKS

1. On the Form of the American Mind
2. Race and State
3. The History of the Race Idea: From Ray to Caras
4. The Authoritarian State: An Essay on the Problem of the Austrian State
5. Modernity without Restraint: The Political Religions; The New Science of Politics; and Science, Politics, and Gnosticism
6. Anamnesis: On the Theory of History and Politics
7. Published Essays, 1922-1928
8. Published Essays, 1929-1933
9. Published Essays, 1934-1939
10. Published Essays, 1940-1952
11. Published Essays, 1953-1965
12. Published Essays, 1966-1985
13. Selected Book Reviews
14. Order and History, Volume I, Israel and Revelation
15. Order and History, Volume II, The World of the Polis
16. Order and History, Volume III, Plato and Aristotle
17. Order and History, Volume IV, The Ecumenic Age
18. Order and History, Volume V, In Search of Order
19. History of Political Ideas, Volume I, Hellenism, Rome, and Early Christianity
20. History of Political Ideas, Volume II, The Middle Ages to Aquinas
21. History of Political Ideas, Volume III, The Later Middle Ages
22. History of Political Ideas, Volume IV, Renaissance and Reformation
23. History of Political Ideas, Volume V, Religion and the Rise of Modernity
24. History of Political Ideas, Volume VI, Revolution and the New Science
25. History of Political Ideas, Volume VII, The New Order and Last Orientation
26. History of Political Ideas, Volume VIII, Crisis and the Apocalypse of Man
27. The Nature of the Law, and Related Legal Writings
28. What Is History? And Other Late Unpublished Writings
29. Selected Correspondence
30. Selected Correspondence
31. Hitler and the Germans
32. The Theory of Governance and Other Miscellaneous Papers, 1921-1938
33. The Drama of Humanity and Other Miscellaneous Papers, 1939-1985
34. Autobiographical Reflections and Index

EDITORIAL BOARD

Paul Caringella
Jurgen Gebhardt
Thomas A. Hollweck
Ellis Sandoz

The Editorial Board offers grateful acknowledgment to the Earhart
Foundation and Robert J. Cihak, M.D., for support provided at various
stages in the preparation of this book for publication. A special thanks
for support goes to the Charlotte and Walter Kohler Charitable Trust.

The University of Missouri Press offers its grateful
acknowledgment for a generous contribution from the Eric Voegelin
Institute in support of the publication of this volume.

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF

ERIC VOEGELIN

VOLUME 32

THE THEORY OF GOVERNANCE
AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS
PAPERS, 1921-1938
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY

SUE BOLLANS, JODI COCKERILL,
M. J. HANAK, INGRID HELDT,
ELISABETH VON LOCHNER,
AND WILLIAM PETROPULOS

EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

WILLIAM PETROPULOS

AND

GILBERT WEISS
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI PRESS

COLUMBIA AND LONDON

Copyright 2003 by

The Curators of the University of Missouri
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri 65201
Printed and bound in the United States of America
All rights reserved

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Voegelin, Eric, 1901- [Works. 1989]

The collected works of Eric Voegelin / edited with an introduction by Ellis Sandoz. p. cm. Vols. < > published by University of Missouri Press, Columbia. Vol. 33 published in 1989. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents: v. 1. On the form of the American mind v. 2. Race and state v. 3. The history of the race idea [etc.] ISBN 0-8071-1826-5 (v. 1 : alk. paper) ISBN 0-8071-1673-4 (v. 2 : alk. paper) ISBN 0-8071-1843-5 (v. 3 : alk. paper) [etc.] 1. Philosophy. 2. HistoryPhilosophy. 3. Political sciencePhilosophy. I. Sandoz, Ellis, 1931- . II. Weiss, Gilbert. III. Title. B3354.V88 1989

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Contents

I . Interaction and Spiritual Community: A

Methodological Investigation

1. Wedekind: A Contribution to the Sociology of

Contemporary Society

1. National Types of Mind and the Limits to

Interstate Relations

1. Notes on Augustine: Time and Memory

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Acknowledgments

The editors express their special thanks to Ellis Sandoz, whose objective criticism and sensitive support accompanied our work from the beginning and helped us to complete it on time and with pleasure.

We also wish to thank Professor Peter J. Opitz of the Eric Voegelin Archive of the University of Munich for opening the archive to us and for his generosity in sharing his knowledge of Eric Voegelin and his works with us.

We thank also Anna E. Frazier of the Voegelin Archive of the University of Munich for her numerous acts of help and kindness.

The editors wish to thank the publishers of the following works for permission to quote from them: Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method and Other Writings, translated with an introduction by F. E. Sutcliffe (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1968); Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, translated by John Mac- quarrie and Edward Robinson (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1962); Edmund Husserl, Formal and Transcendental Logic, translated by Dorion Cairns (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1969); Husserl, Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy, 1st book, A General Introduction to a Pure Phenomenology, translated by F. Ker- sten (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1982); Husserl, Logical Investigations, translated by John N. Findlay, from the second

German edition of Logische Untersuchungen, vol. 2 (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970); Max Scheler, Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values: A New Attempt toward the Foundation of an Ethical Personalism, translated by Manfred S. Frings and Roger L. Funk (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973); Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political, translated with an introduction and notes by George Schwab, with comments on Schmitt's essay by Leo Strauss (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1976); Max Weber, Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology, edited by Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich, 2 vols. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968).

THE THEORY OF GOVERNANCE
AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS
PAPERS, 1921-1938

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Editors' Introduction

Although the last text included here was written in 1932, as the volume's title indicates it includes all of the previously unpublished texts written before Voegelin's forced emigration from Austria in 1938. It should be read in relation to Voegelin's work as a whole. The focus of this work is stated in the quotation introducing Order and History: In the study of creatures one should not exercise a vain and perishing curiosity, but ascend to what is immortal and everlasting."1

At the beginning of his academic career Voegelin had to contend with the various methodological controversies that dominated the human sciences" in Germany in the period following World War I, but from the start his larger theoretical works were concerned with the core of the human person and with the human being's relationship to the ground of being. Depending on the immediate theme upon which Voegelin is focusing, there may be shifts in perspective, but the orientation to the mystical ground of human life, and therefore to the source of individual and social order, remains constant.

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