What We’re Reading
Shakespeare, Hamlet. “To be, or not to be, that is the question…” Shakespeare’s Hamlet is widely considered his greatest dramatic work, a play dealing with tensions running…
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Radically Personal: God and Ourselves in the New Axial Age
I have a new book coming out this fall. It is titled Radically Personal: God and Ourselves in the New Axial Age. Out of gratitude for so…
Shackled to the Humean Corpse
What is liberalism? That is now the enduring question of contemporary political philosophy, though, in some respects, this goes back to debates in the 1950s that occupied…
On What it Means to be Human: Eric Voegelin and Michael Oakeshott
Eric Voegelin and Michael Oakeshott are two of the greatest thinkers in the 20th century. Together with Leo Strauss, they were a part of a rebirth of…
He is Risen
The lamb born to be slain, alive once more, Springing over barbed wire of grave, The pale corpse frozen in agony raw, Thawed by the spirit’s quickening…
Westworld Season 1: Philosophical Reflections
Postmodern architecture is supposed to be a medley of past styles and architectural ideas; a recombination rather than original or the result of a unified aesthetic vision…
The Flowing Soul of the Pilgrim
“Stagnant, lifeless water becomes brackish and muddy, while flowing, singing water remains pure and limpid.” Michel Tournier, The Four Wise Men The practice of pilgrimage has…
“Christ on the Mount of Olives”: Beethoven’s Passion Oratorio
In 1802 Ludwig van Beethoven was gradually going deaf—a condition which would become complete about ten years later. While taking a rest in the countryside, he wrote…
The Power of Song in Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion”
“For the singer, words acquire a very special plenitude and depth of meaning. Something that remains silent in words merely spoken begins to flow, to vibrate; the…
In Your Grave
You are now, This atomic instance of measurable pain, In your grave. Cozy and warm. While the rest of the believers, Above the fertile, green grass Delight…
It is Finished
My sweet Jesus, no one can hurt you now Resting peacefully in your mother’s arms She holds you lovingly, wondering how They thought you could deserve all…
Conversations that Matter: On the West Facing Disaster, Confronting an Expansionist Axis, and Preparing for the End of History
In an article of his from last November entitled “The Six New Rules of Communicating,” writer Ted Gioia, creator of The Honest Broker blog, reflected upon the…
Hearing David Conte
One wonders if Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern appreciated what they were unleashing on the world when they decided to scrap tonality and embrace the twelve-tone scale…
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VOEGELINVIEW is the arts & humanities journal of the Eric Voegelin Society. We publish essays, reviews, interviews, poems, and occasional works of creative fiction dealing with the great…