Virtual Reality on the Loose
This review was originally printed in VoegelinView on May 28, 2012. It is reprinted here. Spirits in the Material World: The Challenge of Technology. Gilbert G. Germain. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009. Copyright © 2012 Ronald D. Srigley. With the publication of Spirits in the Material World: The…
Voegelin Among the Machines: Teilhard de Chardin, Olaf Stapledon and the Millenarian Kernel of Transhumanism
Mr. Ratcliffe has given us permission to reprint his paper. Copyright © 2016 Jonathan Ratcliffe. This article is the first step towards a Voegelinian study of the history of the relationship between millenarianism and technology. In it I concentrate upon “transhumanism,” a coagulation of opinions united…
Auguste Comte’s Scientistic Politics (Part II)
Maladies of Modernity: Scientism and the Deformation of Political Order. David Whitney. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine Press, 2015. Dr. Whitney and his publisher has given us permission to reprint his chapter. This is the second of two parts. Part one can be accessed here. Copyright ©…
Auguste Comte’s Scientistic Politics (Part I)
Maladies of Modernity: Scientism and the Deformation of Political Order. David Whitney. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine Press, 2015. Dr. Whitney and his publisher has given us permission to reprint his chapter. This is the first of two parts. Copyright © 2016 St. Augustine Press. …
Zealots of Science
Maladies of Modernity: Scientism and the Deformation of Political Order. David Whitney. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine Press, 2015. Copyright © 2016 Scott Robinson. David Whitney’s excellent critique of what he calls scientism, a dogmatic application of the methods of natural science to social science, provides…
The Alcibiades of Our Time
Dr. Trepanier has given us permission to reprint his essay. Copyright © 2016 Lee Trepanier. We now have two presidential candidates each appealing to their bases with head-fakes to an ever-diminishing center. Donald Trump has tapped into the political, economic, and cultural discontent of the white…
Wisdom’s Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University
Wisdom’s Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University. James Axtell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Copyright © 2016 R. J. Snell. Despite their humble origins, U.S. universities dominate the global rankings of elite research institutions, holding a majority of the top 50 spots—how did this come to be?…
Making Sense of Our Dysfunctional Colleges
American Heresies and Higher Education. Peter Augustine Lawler. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2016. Copyright © 2016 Luigi Bradizza. American higher education is in a crisis of long duration, and there is no end in sight. Liberal education is under assault by advocates of political correctness,…
Spirits in the Material World: The Challenge of Technology. Gilbert G. Germain. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009. Copyright © 2012 Ronald D. Srigley.
With the publication of Spirits in the Material World: The Challenge of Technology, Gil Germain returns to the problem of disenchantment he first explored in A…
This article is the first step towards a Voegelinian study of the history of the relationship between millenarianism and technology. In it I concentrate upon “transhumanism,” a coagulation of opinions united by a shared belief that man’s nature is inherently revolting, flawed and imminently about to…
Dr. Whitney and his publisher has given us permission to reprint his chapter. This is the second of two parts. Part one can be accessed here. Copyright © 2016 St. Augustine Press.
Religion of Humanity
What ultimately separates Comte from his predecessors is not…
Dr. Whitney and his publisher has given us permission to reprint his chapter. This is the first of two parts. Copyright © 2016 St. Augustine Press.
“In the name of the past and the future, the theoretical servants and the practical servants of…
David Whitney’s excellent critique of what he calls scientism, a dogmatic application of the methods of natural science to social science, provides a high-brow diagnosis of the modern maladies that result from the “rhetorical power of science.”…
We now have two presidential candidates each appealing to their bases with head-fakes to an ever-diminishing center. Donald Trump has tapped into the political, economic, and cultural discontent of the white working class who are tired of the condescension and contempt of our elites, while Hillary…
Despite their humble origins, U.S. universities dominate the global rankings of elite research institutions, holding a majority of the top 50 spots—how did this come to be? In his new book, Wisdom’s Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University, James Axtell assigns…
American higher education is in a crisis of long duration, and there is no end in sight. Liberal education is under assault by advocates of political correctness, with the aim of silencing rational discussion, particularly on topics related to approved victim groups.…
What explains Donald Trump’s appeal, especially among the white working class? The various theories that have been offered – being economically left behind in a globalized, knowledge-based economy; fear of the changing racial and ethnic demographics of this country; contempt for the political paralysis that characterizes…
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Auguste Comte’s Scientistic Politics (Part II) 
Zealots of Science 
The Alcibiades of Our Time 
Wisdom’s Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University 
Making Sense of Our Dysfunctional Colleges 
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