The Space of Politics: Wolin, Voegelin, Arendt Compared
In January, 2000, a 10 year old boy stood on the stage of the amphitheater in Fiesole, a small Etruscan-era hill-top town in the Italian province of…
Narrative and Conversion: Voegelin and Jonas on Freedom in Augustine
The writings of Augustine analyzed by Voegelin and Jonas have to do with the transformative liberation of the human race from the disorientation and cupidity due to…
The Paradox of Consciousness in Augustine’s Confessions: A Voegelinian Reading
Although Augustine wrote several books that are dialogues his Confessions, composed as a prayer, does not at first seem to be one of them. It appears rather…
Eric Voegelin’s New Science of Politics: Revisited
Nearly sixty-five years ago, Eric Voegelin delivered a series of lectures at the University of Chicago under the sponsorship of the Walgreen Foundation. These lectures were subsequently…
The Diagnosis of Scientism: Eric Voegelin and Michael Polanyi on Science and Philosophy
On the first day of his 1951 Walgreen Lectures, standing before a distinguished audience at the University of Chicago, Eric Voegelin made many remarks which may have…
The Pharaoh, the Two Lands, and The Apocalypse: An Analysis of the Breakdown of the Cosmological Order of Existence in Classical Egypt
Within the course of his writing of Order & History (itself a more than thirty year affair) Eric Voegelin wrote two sustained studies of Ancient Egypt. In…
Pax Gandhiana: The Political Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi
Pax Gandhiana: The Political Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi. Anthony J. Parel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. It was not too long ago that scholars debated…
Localism According to Korab-Karpowicz
Tractatus Politico-Philosophicus. W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz. Kęty: Marek Derewiecki, 2015. Tractatus Politico-Philosophicus (Political-Philosophical Treatise), the new book by W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz, could be entitled Localism and Philosophy.…
Hobbes in the Context of Modern Political Thought As Interpreted by Oakeshott, Strauss and Voegelin
The thought of Thomas Hobbes is a living force in philosophic reflection on modern politics. Yet many insist that an era of political philosophy, roughly beginning with…
A Philosopher and a Psychoanalyst: Eric Voegelin and Donald Winnicott on the In-Between of Human Life
The literature on the work of the philosopher Eric Voegelin includes no studies of the relevance of his philosophy of order for psychiatry and psychotherapy. There are…
Religious Modernity
The Theological Origins of Modernity. Michael Allen Gillespie. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Seeking to clarify what we mean by “modernity,” Michael Gillespie provides an…
Spiritual Realism, Phenomenalism, and the Current Crisis Discourse
Who is afraid of the financial market? Obviously most of the political leaders around the world – and rightly, since the global economy has fallen into disarray;…
History as Horizon: Eric Voegelin’s Philosophical Wissenschaft
Chapter 3 of The Ecumenic Age is called "The Process of History." There, Eric Voegelin reviews the ancient notions of "cosmos," "oikoumene," and "okeanos," the parameters of…
Reading, Not Deconstructing Voegelin After All
In an article I wrote in 1981, I made a first attempt to describe Eric Voegelin's work-method, his Arbeitsmethode. At the time I focused on the early…