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…
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…
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,…
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] …
The transfer of editorship at any publication, but especially VoegelinView, is an opportunity to say what has too often gone unsaid. That is, to express our gratitude…
Havel: A Life. Michael Zantovsky. New York: Grove Press, 2014. I am grateful for the invitation to review Michael Zantovsky’s biography of Václav Havel, the playwright,…
The Eric Voegelin Society is a Related Group of the American Political Science Association. Its Annual Meeting will run concurrently with that of the APSA on September…
The Eric Voegelin Society is a Related Group of the American Political Science Association. Its Annual Meeting will run concurrently with that of the APSA on August…
It feels a little strange to raise the question of Leo Strauss’s relationship to Catholicism when his relationship to Judaism has scarcely been clarified. If we could…
Heidegger's Place in Modern Philosophy Martin Heidegger was the culminating figure of twentieth-century philosophy. For better or worse he is the one who carries philosophy forward to…
The beatification of John Henry Cardinal Newman by Benedict XVI on his recent visit to England might seem to be a locally Catholic affair. Newman had founded…
Thus Spake Zarathustra Philosophy can only be lived, not explained, as the powerful concreteness of Friedrich Nietzsche's Zarathustra makes clear. The limit of aphorism is reached in…
The Question Posed by Locke For John Locke, the foundation of the social contract was not a problem because it was identical with the moral law. The…
All of the critiques point toward the fundamental objection that Nietzsche was to express so powerfully. That is, that liberal politics had cut itself off from its…
Customary Liberal Silence Discussion of an existential depth to our discourse inevitably engenders a degree of methodological discomfort. This is particularly the case among theorists whose occupation…