Process and the Derailing of Reality: Erotic Theology (Part VI)
In part five of this essay we looked closely at the forgotten early modern Platonic thinkers Giordano Bruno, Ralph Cudworth and Anne Conway and their theories of…
Process and the Derailing of Reality: Love and Violence (Part V)
In this fifth part of the essay I would like to consider what a Platonic speculative realism might tell us about Eros – desire in all its…
Process and the Derailing of Reality: The Strange Curse of the Ages of the World (Part IV)
In part one of this essay we looked closely at Voegelin’s debts to the process philosophers A. N. Whitehead, William James and Henri Bergson. Nonetheless, there is…
Process and the Derailing of Reality: Catherine Pickstock and the Return of Platonic Cosmology (Part III)
In part one of this essay we looked at Eric Voegelin’s debts to the process thinkers A.N. Whitehead, William James and Henri Bergson. In part 2 we…
Process and the Derailing of Reality: Haunted Ontologies and Different Modes of Existence (Part II)
As we saw at the end of part one of this essay Voegelin’s anti-foundationalism is obviously something of a fragile and quixotic venture. Steven McGuire is not…
Process and the Derailing of Reality: Voegelin, Process and the New Realism (Part I)
Recently I overheard a little aphorism. It went: the philosophy of the 20th century was largely epistemological and agnostic. The philosophy of the 21st century is shaping…
The Millenarian Platonism of Alain Badiou (Part III)
Plato’s Republic. Alain Badiou with Susan Spitzer, trans. Polity Press, Cambridge, 2015. In the first two parts of this essay I outlined the millenarian Platonism of French…
The Millenarian Platonism of Alain Badiou (Part II)
Plato’s Republic. Alain Badiou with Susan Spitzer, trans. Polity Press, Cambridge, 2015. Part 2: Voegelin and Girard on Badiou. This is the second instalment in a three-part…
The Millenarian Platonism of Alain Badiou (Part I)
Plato’s Republic. Alain Badiou with Susan Spitzer, trans. Polity Press, Cambridge, 2015. Plenty of books have been written about Plato’s Republic. However, as far as I can…
Éric Voegelin et l’Orient
Éric Voegelin et l’Orient: Millénarisme et religions politiques de l’Antiquité à Daech. Renaud Fabbri. Editions L'Harmattan, 2016. Renaud Fabbri is a professor of political science at l’Université…
The Return of the Reactionary (Part III)
Part 3: Whatever Happened to Nietzsche? This is the third part of our journey into the strange Other Wold of neo-reactionary political thought that began with an…
The Return of the Reactionary (Part II)
Part 2: Rebooting the Leviathan In the first part of this essay we looked at the phenomenon of the “alt right”. In this second piece we turn…
The Return of the Reactionary (Part I)
Part 1: Inside the Nazi CPU This is the first of a three part essay on the current rise in hard right political thought. My aim is…
Voegelin Among the Machines: Teilhard de Chardin, Olaf Stapledon and the Millenarian Kernel of Transhumanism
This article is the first step towards a Voegelinian study of the history of the relationship between millenarianism and technology. In it I concentrate upon “transhumanism,” a…