Virtual Reality on the Loose
Spirits in the Material World: The Challenge of Technology. Gilbert G. Germain. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009. With the publication of Spirits in the Material World: The…
A Prescient Lecture: Vogelin’s “Democracy and Industrial Society”
An Economist looks at Voegelin's "Democracy and Industrial Society" Eric Voegelin delivered his lecture "Democracy and Industrial Society" in 1963. Despite this lecture having been delivered nearly…
The Invention of “Humanity”
Turgot [1727-1781] transposes the Christian dichotomy of [sacred history, which does have meaning] and profane history [which can have no meaning because its whole is not yet…
The Glamour of Scholarship
Two or three weeks ago, we found ourselves holding a modest volume from 2001 entitled Hebrew Scholarship in the Medieval World and feeling a little surprised.The volume…
On the Picket Line
Several weeks ago, as a result of certain . . . misunderstandings, your columnist and about twenty three hundred of his co-workers found themselves on strike, rather…
Robert Musil and Eric Voegelin: Literature and Spiritual Pathology
The Novelist as Pathologist Why did the disasters of the twentieth century happen? By “disasters” we mean the enslavement of nations to totalitarian regimes, the exterminations of…
Self-Evident Truths: America and the Political Philosophy of Common Sense
America and the Political Philosophy of Common Sense. Scott Philip Segrest. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2009. Scott Segrest begins with the remark that it…
Heidegger, Voegelin, and the Human Predicament
Living Under the Spell of Heidegger Modern intellectual discourse is still under the spell of the Heideggerian project. Once it had broken away from its German moorings,…