Eric Voegelin: Philosopher of Reality
Scholarly engagements with the work of Eric Voegelin continue apace. Alongside evaluation and re-assessment, many Voegelin scholars also engage in what one might call "lens-crafting"—a move beyond…
Calvin, Gnosis, and Anti-Philosophy: Voegelin’s Intepretation of the Reformation
The Reformation movements of fifteenth-century Europe have been variously described as a cultural advance, a civilizational disruption with continuities, a religious revival, a heresy of "invincible error…
The Space of Politics: Wolin, Voegelin, Arendt Compared
In January, 2000, a 10 year old boy stood on the stage of the amphitheater in Fiesole, a small Etruscan-era hill-top town in the Italian province of…
Equivalences of Experience and Symbolization: Historic Constant or Changing Structures? Gilson, Rosen, and Voegelin on Equivalences and Constancy amidst Change
“Equivalences of Experience and Symbolization in History” is one of Eric Voegelin’s better-known essays, and its arguments concerning the nature —the structure, persistence, and historical constancy amidst…
Out of the Crooked Wood: How Eric Voegelin Read Immanuel Kant
To start with the premise that the philosopher is entirely free–the governing assumption of . . . all analytic philosophy–might only end with the assertion that what…
David Walsh’s The Modern Philosophical Revolution: Thomas Heilke
Professor Walsh has written an unsettling, unusual, and in some ways audacious book. We all are used by now to the many tellings and re-tellings of the…