Transcendence and Immanence: An Excerpt from Voegelin's "What Is History?" Eric Voegelin"What Is History?": An ExcerptWhat Is History? and Other Late Unpublished Writings: The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Vol. 28. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. * * * * * * * Before we get into Voegelin's differentiation of immanence and transcendence which is the subject of the excerpt I'm about to post, we need to do a little "stage-setting": Voegelin had previously cited two classical "sophistic propositions." The two provide important background for the excerpt's main thesis. The first is attributed to Protagoras,...
