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Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition in English. Scholarly study of the ways in which totalitarianism resembles religion, based in part on the author's observations of friends & colleagues (& their students) falling under the sway of German post-Weimar politics, but anchored in ancient & medieval history. In English, but including the original 1939 German text; also includes a lengthy essay on the author by the translators. Born in Germany in 1901 and educated in Vienna, Voegelin won fellowships to study at Oxford, Columbia, Harvard, Wisconsin, and in France. He taught at Vienna until his publications, this book in particular, drew the ire of the Gestapo, whom he narrowly evaded in 1938, ending up at Louisiana State by 1942. He taught there until 1958, when he returned to Germany. Publisher's Toronto Studies in Theology Volume 23. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, likely as issued. Light wear, minor bumping to corners; pencil underlining noted & erased. Text believed clean; xlvii, [3], 83, blank, [3] to 67 pages; list of other titles in the series; source notes. Size: Octavo.