the modern state as a suburban house lot

[alice wellintown]

This interested in one of Eddin's secondary sources may now read it
Online. It is Eric Voegelin's Collected Works Vol.5 Modernist Without
Retraint: The Political Religions, The New Science of Politics, And
Science, Politics, And Gnosticism.

On Page 233 Voegelin discusses Hobbes: " The function of Gnosticism as
a civil theology of Western society its destruction of the truth of
the soul, and its deisregard for the problem of existence have set
forth in sifficient detail to make the final imporance of the proble
clear.


Hobbes tried to meet the danger by devising a civil theology that made
the order of a society in existence the truth that it represented--and
by the side of this truth no other should be held.

Fear and submit to government by contract ...(236)

The Romantic resistance, the Antinomian strain, is present, not only
in the works and the histories of the Pyncheons, but in the Romance
where they are characters (HSG), and of course, in the first chapater
of The Scarlet Letter.