Questions About a Person-Centered Leadership
James MacGregor Burns concluded his 1978 classic on Leadership by stating, "In real life the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns,…
Eric Voegelin’s 1944 “Political Theory and the Pattern of General History”: An Account from the Biography of a Philosophizing Consciousness
In 1944, the American Political Science Review published a short essay by Eric Voegelin titled “Political Theory and the Pattern of General History”–subsequently reprinted in The Collected…
Niklas Luhmann’s Love: A Sketch
Love: A Sketch. Niklas Luhmann. Polity, 2010. In 1969, a German sociologist named Niklas Luhmann delivered a lecture at Bielefeld University in the year of its…
Interdisciplinary Notes Toward a Definition of “Crisis Leadership”
Every leadership episode is unique, and we would do well to appreciate each contingent, concrete feature (Wren, 2012). We do have to notice, for example, the prevailing…
From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez: Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship
From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez: Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship. Paul Hollander. Cambridge University Press. United Kingdom. 2017. 318 pages.[1] Paul Hollander…
Eric Voegelin’s 1944 “Political Theory and the Pattern of General History”: An Account from the Biography of a Philosophizing Consciousness
Introduction In 1944, the American Political Science Review published a short essay by Eric Voegelin titled “Political Theory and the Pattern of General History” – subsequently reprinted…
The Elements of Leadership: Might, Measure, and Meaning
The philosopher Eric Voegelin labored for many years in relative obscurity until his death in 1985. Even now his disciples are drawn largely from conservative academe, which…
Martin Luther and the Translation of the Bible into German
The very life of Martin Luther (1483-1546) manifested turbulence, over and over. From his troubled youth in Saxony (Erikson, 1958/1962), through his contretemps against the Roman Catholic…
The Life of the Scholar
Is Scholarship a "Product"? New university faculty want to know what scholarship is in order to go do it. Not unreasonably, they are asking for a target.…
