Contents -- Publisher's Note -- Preface -- I Philosophy -- 1 The Turn toward Existence as Existence in the Turn -- 2 Hunting and Political Philosophy -- 3 The (Anti-) Eschatalogical Perspective in Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalysis -- 4 Eric Voegelin's Defense of Human Dignity -- 5 Eric Voegelin and a New Science of Politics -- 6 The Big Mystery -- II Literature -- 7 A Discipline of the Mind and Heart -- 8 Compactness, Poetic Ambiguity, and the Fiction of Robert Penn Warren -- 9 Biographies of Consciousness -- 10 Imagining Modern Japan -- III Politics -- 11 The Concept of "the Political" Revisited -- 12 Eric Voegelin on the Nature of Law -- 13 A Classical Prince -- 14 Common Sense and the Rule of Law -- 15 Civilizational Conflict and Spiritual Disorder -- 16 Voegelin's Puritan Gnosticism and Bacon's Great Instauration -- 17 History as Open Horizon -- Contributors -- Index.