I. A Scholar at the Crossroads: The Walgreen Lectures[1] On February 20, 1950 Eric Voegelin received an invitation from Professor Jerome G. Kerwin, Chairman of the Charles…
The following reflections are a hermeneutical exercise in intercivilizational interpretation. They are undertaken in order to clarify some important problems that arise in the course of comparative…
Who is afraid of the financial market? Obviously most of the political leaders around the world – and rightly, since the global economy has fallen into disarray;…
In view of an unfolding global modernity, Voegelin proposed “the empirical thesis that the philosophical investigation of the realm of phenomena has always drawn its dynamism from…
The Need for Political Philosophy A reflection on the legacy of Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss must start from the following general questions: What is political philosophy?…
Living Under the Spell of Heidegger Modern intellectual discourse is still under the spell of the Heideggerian project. Once it had broken away from its German moorings,…
No matter whether the empirical structural analyses of "political life," including the in-depth studies of individuals and groups, are intended to supplement, deepen, or confirm an understanding…
Only after the convulsions of World War II did American self-criticism very reluctantly abandon the influence of monumental history. The search of representative minds in the humanities,…
On the level of pragmatic existence, the watershed results from the civilizing process. Self-contained, autonomous, independent agrarian America is transformed into urbanized, industrialized America, and this new…
The Social Function of the World of National Symbols Even before 1860, the infinite variety of civic associations of every sort and with different public and private…
With the exception of Washington, all the Founding Fathers had, of course, to travel the road from the controversial to the noncontroversial sphere. Franklin, Jefferson, and Lincoln…
Monumental History The process by which the founders' consciousness created itself a social field in the new society and the authority of an ultimate source of order…