VOEGELINVIEW is the online arts and humanities journal of the Eric Voegelin Society. We publish essays, reviews, interviews, poems, and occasional works of creative fiction dealing with current events, the great questions of the human condition and experience, the humanities as a source of wisdom, and the life and thought of Eric Voegelin. We exist as a journal of cultural and intellectual criticism, education, and humanistic renewal with a commitment to the politics of liberty, self-governance, free speech and free expression, freedom of religion, and democratic renewal. In the words of the Eric Voegelin Society, our mission is to be “an educational organization devoted to the revitalization of teaching and understanding of Eric Voegelin’s work and fundamental expressions of human civilization in art, literature, science, and politics.” The safest characterization of our general approach is to read, review, and critique in the spirit of Voegelin’s “gnostic” thesis of culture and politics.
Raleigh Adams is a Master of Arts in Religion (Ethics) student at Yale Divinity School, where her work explores the intersections of virtue ethics, political theory, classical philosophy, and Catholicism. She is a recent graduate of the Clemson University Honors College and Lyceum Program, with a BA in Political Science and Philosophy. You can follow her on Twitter: Raleigh Adams.
Filip Bakardzhiev is an Assistant Editor of VoegelinView and a writer on a variety of subjects relating to the humanities. Educated in law at King’s College, London and Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, and philosophy at the University of Buckingham, his main interests include the arts, classics, philosophy, and history. He has a specialist interest in the field of the Philosophy of History, Horror, and military history. You can follow him on Twitter: @FBakardzhiev.
Sophia Belloncle teaches Latin, English literature, and Rhetoric at a classical school in Detroit, Michigan. She also co-hosts a culture and literature podcast, the Unreliable Narrators Podcast.
Sarah Chew is an Assistant Editor of VoegelinView and an English and Philosophy student, and University Fellow, at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. She is interested in the intersection of faith, philosophy, and culture.
Robert Lazu Kmita is a novelist and essayist with a PhD in Philosophy. His first novel, The Island without Seasons, was translated and released in the United States by Os Justi Press in 2023. He has written and published as an author or co-author more than ten books (including a substantial Encyclopedia of Tolkien’s World – in Romanian). His numerous studies, essays, reviews, interviews, short stories, and articles have appeared at The European Conservative, Catholic World Report, The Remnant, Saint Austin Review, Gregorius Magnus, Second Spring, Radici Cristiane, Polonia Christiana, and Philosophy Today, among other publications. He is currently living in Italy. Robert publishes regularly at his Substack.
Jesse Russell is an Assistant Professor of English at Georgia Southwestern State University. He has contributed to a wide variety of academic journals, including Political Theology, Politics and Religion, and New Blackfriars. He also writes for numerous public journals and magazines, including University Bookman, Law & Liberty, and Front Porch Republic. He is the author of The Political Christopher Nolan: Liberalism and the Anglo-American Vision.
Contributing Editors
Richard Cocks is a Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Oswego. He is an editor and regular contributor at the Orthosphere and has been published at The Brussels Journal, The Sydney Traditionalist Forum, People of Shambhala, The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal and the University Bookman.
Eric Voegelin (1901-85) was a German-American political philosopher who fled Europe in 1938 when the Nazis entered Austria. He spent most of his career at Louisiana State University, the University of Munich, and the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. Voegelin abhorred the political violence of the twentieth century and he wrote about the need of constitutionalism, responsible citizenship, and political and economic freedom as antidotes. He often cited the United States as an exemplar of these values. While published works within VOEGELINVIEW need not examine Voegelin’s writings, they should embody the spirit of Voegelin’s work and outlook: particularly its realism, emphasis on freedom and anti-totalitarianism, defense and promotion of western civilization and its ideals in art, culture, and religion, as well as the promotion of intellectual diversity and freedom of speech that is essential to the advancement of the human spirit and human knowledge. VOEGELINVIEW, therefore, exists as a public journal of humanities education and cultural criticism for the safeguarding and advancement of a free society and free people through the wisdom of culture, as well as a journal where writings and discussions about Eric Voegelin, his life, thought, and relevance to the modern world are welcome.
VOEGELINVIEW also provides announcements for the Eric Voegelin Society as well as resources for those who wish to learn more about Eric Voegelin. A list of Voegelin’s collected works, excerpts from his writings, and audio and video recordings are available on this website. It also provides a list of other organizations, relevant websites, and archival links about Eric Voegelin.
The Eric Voegelin Society is a 501(c)(3) organization (Tax ID 45-5508836). The Eric Voegelin Society, which publishes VOEGELINVIEW, can be supported through Nicholls State University by going here: https://nichollsfoundation.org/donate-now/
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CONTACT US
Potential contributors should consult our submissions guidelines and our policy on questions of copyright and publication. If you have questions, please email our editor-in-chief, Paul Krause, at [email protected].
Book Review Editor: John von Heyking. A Professor of Political Science at the University of Lethbridge in Canada, John is author and editor of several books, including The Form of Politics: Aristotle and Plato on Friendship (McGill-Queen’s, 2016) and Comprehensive Judgment and Absolute Selflessness: Winston Churchill on Politics as Friendship (St. Augustine’s, 2018).
Raleigh Adams is a Master of Arts in Religion (Ethics) student at Yale Divinity School, where her work explores the intersections of virtue ethics, political theory, classical philosophy, and Catholicism. She is a recent graduate of the Clemson University Honors College and Lyceum Program, with a BA in Political Science and Philosophy. You can follow her on Twitter: Raleigh Adams.
Filip Bakardzhiev is an Assistant Editor of VoegelinView and a writer on a variety of subjects relating to the humanities. Educated in law at King’s College, London and Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, and philosophy at the University of Buckingham, his main interests include the arts, classics, philosophy, and history. He has a specialist interest in the field of the Philosophy of History, Horror, and military history. You can follow him on Twitter: @FBakardzhiev.
Robert Lazu Kmita is a novelist and essayist with a PhD in Philosophy. His first novel, The Island without Seasons, was translated and released in the United States by Os Justi Press in 2023. He has written and published as an author or co-author more than ten books (including a substantial Encyclopedia of Tolkien’s World – in Romanian). His numerous studies, essays, reviews, interviews, short stories, and articles have appeared at The European Conservative, Catholic World Report, The Remnant, Saint Austin Review, Gregorius Magnus, Second Spring, Radici Cristiane, Polonia Christiana, and Philosophy Today, among other publications. He is currently living in Italy. Robert publishes regularly at his Substack.
Jesse Russell is an Assistant Professor of English at Georgia Southwestern State University. He has contributed to a wide variety of academic journals, including Political Theology, Politics and Religion, and New Blackfriars. He also writes for numerous public journals and magazines, including University Bookman, Law & Liberty, and Front Porch Republic. He is the author of The Political Christopher Nolan: Liberalism and the Anglo-American Vision.
Arpad Szakolczai is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland. He was born and raised in Hungary, has a PhD in Economics from University of Texas, Austin, taught social and political theory at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy and University College Cork, Ireland. His recent books include Permanent Liminality and Modernity (Routledge, 2017); From Anthropology to Social Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2019, with Bjørn Thomassen); The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology (Routledge, 2020, with Agnes Horvath), Post-Truth Society: A Political Anthropology of Trickster Logic (Routledge, 2022), and Political Anthropology as Method (Routledge, 2023). He is currently editing an Encyclopedia of Political Anthropology.