Etty Hillesum and the Flow of Presence
Etty Hillesum had to reintroduce or restore the values that were under attack by Nazi terror. She faced her path with at least two sets of symbols:…
Etty Hillesum: Exegesis of a Mystic’s Experience
Etty Hillesum and the Flow of Presence: A Voegelinian Analysis. Mein G.S. Coetsier. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2008. Meins G.S. Coetsier has written a…
Nature of Pathos
The violent reaction comes from the activist, from Callicles, the enlightened politician. He has followed the course of the debate with increasing astonishment and wrath and now…
Redefining Rebellion: John Locke’s Slight of Hand
John Locke took the concept of rebellion which had a rich history in political philosophy and deftly assigned to it a new meaning that was useful for…
Eric Voegelin and Continental Philosophy: Diagnosing Modernity
Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition: Explorations in Modern Political Thought. Lee Trepanier and Steven F. McGuire, eds. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2011. I…
Progressivist Hubris and Obamacare
The example of Obamacare elsewhere in VoegelinView may be found Scott Segrest's essay, "Richard Rorty and the Core of Progressivism," which deals with the presuppositions and programs…
Richard Rorty and the Core of Progressivism
The Religious Character of American Progressivism The analysis of progressivism given by Eric Voegelin six decades ago in his New Science of Politics remains illuminating even today. …
High Noon and Polish Freedom A History of Mutual Respect
The Poster That Symbolizes Shared Values Not many U. S. political scientists I had the pleasure to read or otherwise communicate with know that a poster depicting…