History of Political Ideas, Volume 8 (Cw26): Crisis and the Apocalypse of Man

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Crisis and the Apocalypse of Man confronts the disintegration of traditional sources of meaning and the correlative attempts to generate new sources of order from within the self. Voegelin allows us to contemplate the crisis in its starkest terms as the apocalypse of man that now seeks to replace the apocalypse of God. The totalitarian upheaval that convulsed Voegelin's world, and whose aftermath still defines ours, is only the external manifestation of an inner spiritual turmoil. Its roots have been probed throughout the eight volumes of History of Political Ideas, but its emergence is marked by the age of Enlightenment.