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] …
Grateful Acknowledgement to Ronald D. Srigley
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
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,…
31st International Meeting of The Eric Voegelin Society, San Francisco 2015
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…
30th International Meeting of The Eric Voegelin Society, Washington D.C. 2014
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…
A Catholic Strauss: A Reply to James Stoner’s “The Catholic Moment in the Political Philosophy of Leo Strauss”
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…
Voegelin and Heidegger: Apocalypse Without Apocalypse
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…