“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 crushing might of the Soviet Union. He did not seek an open confrontation with the regime. Neither resistance nor violence could succeed in the face of a remorseless killing machine. Individuals would simply…
34th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY, 2018
American Political Science Association Meeting,
August 30-September 2
Boston, MA
David Walsh, Meeting Director
Dear Friends,
I look forward to seeing you all in Boston, or as many of you as can make it, for our annual convocation. The program for EVS…
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 appearance of the latter that readers could gain an appreciation of the humanist roots of Marxian thought that, in its mature formulation, was centered more narrowly on economic theory. A similar pattern applies…
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 in his latest book, Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being, in his interview with Richard M. Reinsch II of Liberty Law Talk. The interview is available here.
An excerpt of the book is available…
An excerpt of the book is available…
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 status compared to the strictly autonomous unfolding of philosophy. Yet it is by virtue of this difference of perspective that they may have something to contribute to philosophy. The problem, however, is that…
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. At the same time, it is clearly not intended as a confessional or a theological guide to Sacred Scripture. Some element of all three genres are admittedly present but the combination eludes specific…
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 mode of communication.1 Add to this the impression so readily accepted by many of his readers that the novelist remained an inconclusive searcher to the end of his life, and there seems to…
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 contribution she made to the publication of the Collected Works. It stands as a fitting testament to Beverly’s four decades of work in scholarly publishing. Beginning as a copy editor at Louisiana State…
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
Dear Friends,
This is our program as it currently stands at the beginning of August. Please continue to update me with any changes that become necessary. I have filled in…
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 one another as persons? That we should never subordinate persons to their social roles or functions? That the very language we use must embody the primacy of reverence owed toward persons as such? …
From Philosopher Kings to Philosopher Professors: Against the Relativists 
The Life of the Scholar 
The Use of Force 
“A Cow Is Just a Cow”: George Grant and Eric Voegelin on the United States 
The Collected Works: The Drama of Humanity (Volume 33) 
Eric Voegelin as Master Teacher 
New Political Religions, or An Analysis of Modern Terrorism 
What is a Miracle? 
What Enlightenment, Exactly? 
God is Not Just the Good, as Plato Claimed But Love 
The Shock of Philosophy: On Josef Pieper 
Association for Political Theory Call for Papers Proposal Deadline: Monday, February 4, 2019 
Roger Caillois is a Better Guide to the Sacred Foundations of the West than Giorgio Agamben 
The Centrality of the Regime for Political Science 
Eschatology, Geography, and the Advancing Jesus Movement 
Interview with William Thompson-Uberuaga About His Book, “Your Kin-dom Come: The Lord’s Prayer in a Global Age” 
Constructive Dialogues: Understanding Immigration 
