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Lee Trepanier is Chair and Professor of the Political Science Department at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama and former editor-in-chief of VoegelinView (2016-21). He is author and editor of several books and editor of Lexington Books series Politics, Literature, and Film (2013-present).

Democracy and Industrial Society

In Voegelin’s essay about industrial society, he explored how the American economy had adapted to ever-changing economic circumstances, with its technological productivity and rationalization of forms of…

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Democracy in the New Europe

Voegelin’s essay, “Democracy in the New Europe” (1959), was written in a period of transition in Eric Voegelin’s career, having left Louisiana State University in the United…

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Socratic and Secular Irony

A Case for Irony. Jonathan Lear (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011).   Today we often misunderstand irony for sarcasm, self-detachment, or cleverness instead as a source…

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