2020 Eric Voegelin Society Annual Meeting
Please be sure to submit your proposal to APSA for the 2020 Eric Voegelin Society Annual Meeting on September 10-13 in San Francisco. When you submit your…
35th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY, 2019
35th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY, 2019 American Political Science Association Meeting, August 29-September 1 Washington, DC David Walsh, Meeting Director [email protected] Dear…
Remembering James Schall, S.J.
James Schall was a great teacher. He had a natural ability to connect with everyone he met, especially the students who were readily drawn into his own…
Solzhenitsyn at One Hundred
“Live not by lies,” was the advice that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (born December 11, 1918) gave his compatriots when they asked him how to stand up to the…
34rd International Meeting of the Eric Voegelin Society, Boston 2018
34th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY, 2018 American Political Science Association Meeting, August 30-September 2 Boston, MA David Walsh, Meeting Director [email protected] Dear…
John Rawls’ “On Religion”
The discovery and publication of John Rawls’s senior thesis can be compared to the impact of the early writings of Karl Marx. It was only with the…
The Personal Is Always Political: A Conversation with David Walsh
Who is the human person and has modern philosophy given us a truncated understanding of the person? Those are some of the questions put to David Walsh…
Eric Voegelin’s Redemption of Modernity
Political theorists, like literary and social theorists, occupy a kind of twilight zone in relation to philosophy. Their disciplines are at once empirical and philosophical, an indeterminate…
History as Constituted by What It Cannot Contain: Israel and Revelation
Like all great books, Israel and Revelation defies categorization in terms of genre. It is neither a work of biblical criticism nor an account of political ideas. …
Dostoevsky’s Discovery of the Christian Foundation of Politics
The neglect of Fyodor Dostoevsky as a political theorist can be explained in part by his choice of imaginative literature rather than discursive argument as his primary…
Beverly Jarrett: In Memoriam
We share the sadness of the family of Beverly Jarrett at her recent passing. All members of the Voegelin community are deeply in her debt for the…
33rd International Meeting of the Eric Voegelin Society, San Francisco 2017
33rd International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY, 2017 American Political Science Association Meeting,August 31-September 3 San Francisco, CA David Walsh, Meeting Director [email protected] Dear…
A Personalist Account of Persons
At first glance the title of this chapter is bewildering. What can a “personalist account of persons” mean? Is it simply recognition of the respect we owe…
In Defense of Human Rights
I am indebted to the careful and insightful reading that Macon Boczek has given to my book. Writing is a solitary occupation whereby one opens a conversation,…
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] …
