The Recovery of Science in Eric Voegelin’s Thought
The debate about scientism (also referred to as positivism or scientific reductionism) is an argument over the validity of applying the methods of the natural sciences to…
Voegelin Among the Machines: Teilhard de Chardin, Olaf Stapledon and the Millenarian Kernel of Transhumanism
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…
The Alcibiades of Our Time
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…
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. Despite their humble origins, U.S. universities dominate the global rankings of elite…
Making Sense of Our Dysfunctional Colleges
American Heresies and Higher Education. Peter Augustine Lawler. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, 2016. American higher education is in a crisis of long duration, and…
Mob Rule and Moral Language
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…
A Late Poem by Wallace Stevens about the Metaxy
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) is considered one of the greatest American poets, perhaps a third after Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. He had something of both: a sharp…
Seamus Heaney and the Metaxological Narrative
The goal of this series of essays is the illumination of individual poems as metaxic spaces. Readers of Voegelinview will recall Glenn Hughes’s ground-breaking essays on Emily…
32nd International Meeting of The Eric Voegelin Society, Philadelphia 2016
The 32nd International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY, 2016 American Political Science Association Meeting, September 1-4 Philadelphia, PA David Walsh, Meeting Director [email protected] …