Call for 2019 Christmas Readings
In preparation for our annual List of Christmas Holiday Readings and Books of the Year for 2019, please email your suggestions to John von Heyking at [email protected]…
Aquinas’s Mediated Cosmopolitanism and the Impasse of Ancient Political Philosophy
While Saint Thomas Aquinas roots his political thinking in the natural law whose community is cosmopolis, with God as its ruler, he provides the basis for affirming…
Suddenly There! Thirty Years of Killing Time Around Southern Alberta, 1985-2018
Suddenly There! Thirty Years of Killing Time Around Southern Alberta, 1985-2018. Barry Cooper and Ted Morton. Second Edition. Self-Published. Plato, in his own voice, describes the…
Our List of Christmas Holiday Readings and Books of the Year for 2018
Brought to you by the friends of and contributors to VoegelinView! Michael Henry (St. John’s University) Michael Walsh's The Fiery Angel: Art, Culture, Sex, Politics, and…
“The Delicate Shimmer of Interlaced Rainbows”: Sunaisthesis, Homophrosynê and a Reply to My Friends
I thank Steven McGuire for organizing this symposium and Lee Trepanier for publishing it here on Voegelinview. Away from the friendships unfriendly that dominate the internet and…
Establishing True Community in Philia Among Students: Teaching The Eric Voegelin Reader
For I saw it was impossible to do anything without friends and loyal followers; and to find such men ready to hand would be a piece of…
Modernity, Friendship, and the Purpose of Liberal Education
Thank-you Professor Cheng, the Lingnan University Office of Global Education, and the sponsors of this conference for inviting me to join you at this crucially important conference…
Our List of Christmas Holiday Readings and Books of the Year for 2017
Brought to you by the friends of and contributors to VoegelinView! Jonathan Radcliffe (Australian National University) Kojin Karatani's Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy Karatani is…
Reading Augustine’s Confessions in Dalian Labor Camp with Liu Xiaobo
Liu Xiaobo was the Chinese dissident writer and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize recipient who passed away this past June. He died of liver cancer while serving out…
Periagoge: Liberal Education in the Modern University
Conversation and the “Turning Around of the Soul” One of the common criticisms of the contemporary university is that it lacks individuals unwilling or incapable of conversing.…
Obstacles to Liberal Education in the Modern University
To be a teacher of the humanities at a university means participating in a community dedicated to inquiring into the good for human beings. As members of…
The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao
The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao. Ian Johnson. New York: Pantheon Books, 2017. “For I saw it was impossible to do anything…
A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century
A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century. William F. Buckley with James Rosen, ed. New York: Crown Forum, 2016. James Rosen provides the…
Our List of Christmas Holiday Readings and Books of the Year for 2016
Brought to you by the friends of and contributors to Voegelinview! Jacqueline Pfeffer-Merrill (Fund for Academic Renewal) Dickens' other fine Christmas pieces besides A Christmas Carol…
The Election Concerning Technology
No one is obliged to take part in the spiritual crises of society; on the contrary, everyone is obliged to avoid the folly and live his life…
