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The Musical Representation: Meaning, Ontology, and Emotion

in the emerging new trendy sociology. Voegelin established a new approach to political science in Europe that kept pace with the history of ideas and political philosophy. Both thinkers had been deeply influenced by the phenomenological turn of modern thinking as the alternative to positivism, which was the prevailing empiricist doctrine of scientific work in the industrial era. The correspondence reveals the personal life of two European refugees living in America, where without difficulty both men joined in the economic and intellectual life. The main subject of their emigration and “new start” in America relates to making contact with other European emigrants, including, among others, Thomas Mann and Hannah Arendt. There are few references to the depressing political circumstances of the war, postwar and the Cold War. It is amazing to notice what little impact the devastations and sacrifices of the war had on their thinking. There are some signs, especially in Schütz’s letters, of their later mutual alienation and misunderstandings. Both writers describe the hardships brought on by their failing health. In substance, the letters help to understand more profoundly the intellectual work of both writers. Some letters elaborate on key theoretical parts of their masterpieces, and offer thoughtful and sensitive comments on the main features of their intellectual life. Voegelin presents his teleological interpretation of history on the basis of a transcendental idealism, which is generally approval of by Schütz. He dwells on the methodological implications of writing on historical developments; that is, on what should be unveiled, if history is to be conceived as the analysis from a primal to a final point of development. Then there are their stimulating debates on the relationship of Experience and Imagination and on the shortcomings of rationalism. The letters expose the central role played by the European tradition—how ancient classical and Christian thought prevail—in the analysis of the social, legal, economic and political institutions of Europe. The book thus reflects the key topics of the intellectual debates of the 1940s and 1950s in both America and Europe. The translation from the German is accurate, and key German words are kept in the text, which is particularly helpful in clarifying theoretical concepts. These carefully selected letters express their deep empathy and mutual understanding—the qualities that symbolize the lifetime friendship of two of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century.