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Lecture Series on Eric Voegelin by the Eric Voegelin Institute

The Eric Voegelin Institute will be hosting a five part lectures series on Eric Voegelin which will be available through Zoom.

“Who Was Eric Voegelin, and What Did He Think?”

A ZOOM LECTURE SERIES (five Wednesdays at 11:30 am Central Time) based on Charles R. Embry & Glenn Hughes, The Eric Voegelin Reader: Politics, History, Consciousness (Missouri, 2017)

Register: https://lsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsde6oqTgpEtXmPl7WFWc–59_q3UYnlhf

 

  • Session ONE (2/9/22): An Intellectual Biography of Eric Voegelin (Reader, pp. ix-xxvii, 1-32) [Autobiographical Reflections excerpts] [Barry Cooper, University of Calgary]

 

  • Session TWO (2/16/22): Voegelin’s Philosophical Science of Politics (Reader, pp. 33-109) [New Science of Politics excerpts] [Lee Trepanier, Samford University]

 

  • Session THREE (2/23/22): Voegelin’s Modern Philosophizing (Reader, pp. 111-191) [Three essays from 1960s] [Carol Browning Cooper, University of Houston]

 

  • Session FOUR (3/9/22): Voegelin on Consciousness, Reason, & Divine Reality (Reader, pp. 193-286) [Three essays from 1970s] [David Walsh, Catholic University of America]

 

  • Session FIVE (3/23/22): Voegelin’s Philosophy of History (Reader, pp. 287-392) [Order & History excerpts] [John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge]
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James R. Stoner, Jr. is a Board Member of VoegelinView, the Hermann Moyse, Jr. Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute at Louisiana State University. He is the author of and Common Law and Liberal Theory (Kansas, 1992) and Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism (Kansas, 2003).

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