Contents -- Editor's Introduction -- I. Interpreting the Modern World- Voegelin's Unfinished Story of the Predicament of Modernity -- II. The Paradigm of the "Political Idea" -- III. A Paradigm Lost and the Hermeneutical Turn to the "Historicity of Truth" -- IV. Epilogue: The Spiritual Realist -- Editors' Note -- contents -- PART SEVEN THE NEW ORDER -- The National State -- 1. Tabula Rasa -- 2. In Search of Order -- 3. Hobbes -- The English Revolution -- 1. The English Situation -- 2. James I -- 3. The Clash with Court and Parliament -- 4. The Church Constitution-The May ower Compact -- 5. The Restriction of Royal Power -- 6. The Trend toward Sovereignty of Parliament -- 7. The Covenants -- 8. The Solemn Engagement of the Army -- 9. The Agreement of the People -- 10. The Issues of the Franchise -- 11. The Charge against Charles I-The Declaration of Independence -- 12. Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, Rhode Island -- 13. Milton -- 14. Winstanley -- 15. Harrington -- Cromwell -- 1. The Wars of the Fronde-State vs. Estates -- 2. The Continent and England-State and Stateless Political Society -- 3. The Parliament and the State of England -- 4. The Position of Cromwell -- 5. Cromwell and the Will of God -- 6. The Politics of Cromwell -- Fronde and Monarchy in France -- 1. The Parlement -- 2. The Cardinal de Retz -- 3. Louis XIV -- Spinoza -- 1. Orientalism -- 2. The Program of the De Intellectus Emendatione -- 3. Mysticism -- 4. Esotericism -- 5. Hobbes and Spinoza -- 6. Theory of Power -- 7. Liberalism -- 8. The Project of Government -- 9. The Oath -- Locke -- 1. The Contract Theory -- 2. The Theory of Limited Monarchy -- 3. The Relation with Richard Hooker -- 4. The Victorious Puritan -- 5. Locke's Writings on Toleration -- 6. Toleration and the New Pattern of Revolution.

7. Facets of Toleration in the Seventeenth Century -- 8. The Lord's Dutch Lunch -- 9. God: The Proprietor of Man -- 10. Man: The Proprietor of Himself -- 11. The Civil State-Money and Differentiation of Property -- 12. The Equal Protection of Inequality -- 13. Spiritual Disease-The Revolution- Breeding Element -- Intermission -- 1. The First Cycle: Order against Spirit -- 2. The Second Cycle: The Reassertion of Spirit -- 3. Spleen and Skepticism -- 4. Montesquieu -- 5. The Enlargement of the Geographical Horizon: The Biological Diversification of Mankind -- PART EIGHT LAST ORIENTATION -- Introductory Remarks -- Phenomenalism -- 1. Phenomenalism and Science -- Schelling -- 1. The Realist in an Age of Disintegration -- 2. Elements of Schelling's Position -- 3. Schelling's Speculation -- 4. Historical Existence: The Key to Speculation -- 5. Orgiastic Existence -- 6. Promethean Existence -- 7. Political Existence -- 8. Nirvana -- 9. Conclusion -- Note on Hölderlin -- Nietzsche and Pascal -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- Index.