Wherefrom Does History Emerge?: Inquiries in Political Cosmogony - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3110672162 ISBN 13 : 9783110672169

Editeur : De Gruyter, 2020

Synopsis

Powers of chaos accompany any order of the human world, being the force against which this order is set. Human experience of history is two-fold. There is history ruled by chaos and history ruled by order. "History" occurs in a continuous flow of both histories. The dialectics of life unto nothingness/creation, struggles for order/order achieved is unceasingly actual. In exploring it, within a wide interdisciplinary and transcultural range, this book reaches beyond a conventional "philosophy of history". It deals with the chaotic as well as the cosmic part of the human historical experience. It stages this drama through the tales that religious, mythical, literary, philosophical, folkloristic, and historiographical sources tell and which are retold and interpreted here. From early on humans wished to know where, why, and wherefore all started and took place. Couldn't the dialectics between chaos and order be meaningful? Couldn't they assume a productive role as to the world's precarious event? Power, strife, guilt, divine grace and revelation, literary symbolization, as well as storytelling are discussed in this book. Philosophy, political theory, theology, religious studies, and literary studies will greatly benefit from its width and density.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tilo Schabert, University of Erlangen; John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3110672162
• ISBN 13: 9783110672169
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 194
• Éditeur: Schabert Tilo, Von Heyking John
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