Beginning the Quest: Law and Politics in the Early Work of Eric Voegelin
“Inside baseball” has become a metaphor to describe sports reporters who rely on locker room gossip rather than what happens on the playing field. There is an…
A Visit with Lissy Voegelin
In October of 1992, I decided to visit my son who was then living in Oakland, California. Oakland is across the bay from San Francisco and I…
Voegelin’s Question of the Ground
Voegelin's notion of the differentiation of consciousness may be clarified by setting it off against what he considers to be the foundational structure of consciousness that does…
Winters Contra Everybody
Yvor Winters, American poet, critic, and grouch, is by no means forgotten. Amazon lists 196 hits, including two selections of letters, and his magnum opus, Forms of…
Order and History in Bavaria
Let me give you a brief summary of some of what I heard at the conference on “Eric Voegelin: Ordnung und Geschichte” at the Catholic Academy in…
The Genealogy of Islamic Terrorism
There are major differences between the way that the political implications of Islam have been worked out historically and the political order of liberal, constitutional democracy. It…
Some Memories of Eric Voegelin at Notre Dame
Watching TV You understand it was 1960 and I was a nineteen year old undergraduate. To give you the setting: Our class was held in the auditorium…
The Beginning of the Beginning
As I am putting down these words on an empty page, I have begun to write a sentence that, when it is finished, will be the beginning…