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Glenn Hughes is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy (retired) at St. Mary’s University in Texas. He is author of numerous books, most recently From Dickinson to Dylan: Visions of Transcendence in Modernist Literature (Missouri, 2020). He is also co-editor, with Charles R. Embry, of The Eric Voegelin Reader: Politics, History, Consciousness (Missouri, 2017).

On Human Nature

All ideas of a purely “immanent” human nature are based on a philosophical oversight: the failure to recognize that affirmation of an “immanent reality” has metaphysical meaning…

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On Science

Sometimes, in a set of reflections, one needs to slow down and describe certain details with delicacy and fine attention; sometimes, though, summary strokes are needed. Here…

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On the World of Space and Time

Discovery of the transcendence of ultimate reality—whether undesrtood as Tao, Brahman, Yahweh, Logos, or in another fashion—alters how the “world,” initially experienced as the cosmos, comes to…

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On Myth

With our unrestricted desire to make sense of experience, we humans—bodily, situated, spiritual—find ourselves presented with a staggering challenge: figure out what this cosmos is that we…

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On Desire

We can belong to ourselves, to the cosmos, and to the ground of being because we have appeared—emerged—in a situation. Bodily I was conceived, bodily I gestated,…

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