From “Political Theology” to “Political Religion”: Voegelin and Schmitt
In his book on Politics as Religions, Emilio Gentile credits Eric Voegelin with the invention of the concept of “political religions,” a concept that will be systematically…
Eric Voegelin Society Meeting in Toronto
Political Correctness, Parliament, and Princeton The Eric Voegelin Society annual meeting in Toronto featured no fewer than thirteen panels, some of which this observer found noteworthy. First…
The Philosopher’s Vocation: The Voegelinian Paradigm
In his personal and scholarly demeanor, Eric Voegelin’s stance was overtly and explicitly that of a philosopher and teacher professing truth and resisting corruption. The mark of…
D.H. Lawrence: A Question of Stature
When your copy of the Sewanee Review arrived, we were just reading Lady Chatterley - submitting to the social necessity of having to read a book everybody talks about…
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place with Everything Labeled
Many will recall the famous passage from In the Search of Order, where Voegelin analyses Hesiod's invocation of the Muses and how the Muses "remember" the gods…