Hannah Arendt: Philosopher of Politics, History, and Faith
Hannah Arendt’s immigration to the United States in the early 1940s reminds me of a comment made by a professor of a post-WW2 American history course that…
Hannah Arendt’s immigration to the United States in the early 1940s reminds me of a comment made by a professor of a post-WW2 American history course that…
I What I offer in these pages is not an “introduction to the reading of Voegelin” à la Alexandre Kojève with Hegel. Nor am I undertaking a…
Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, and Arendt. Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Thinking in Public examines what constitutes the public intellectual and…
Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair. Bonnie Honig. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. Public Things examines how public practices, space, and objects can form a collective…
There are many ways to arrive at an unknown destination. Some rely on a map and seldom diverge from the path they have planned out while others…
In 1925, Hannah Arendt was a nineteen-year-old philosophy student at the University of Marburg. She kept a journal, one fragment of which is titled “Shadows.” It traces…
Ideology is a highly misunderstood concept. People use it all the time to describe what, or more precisely, how they think despite the fact that they may…
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…
De la bonne société. L. Strauss, E. Voegelin, H. Arendt. Le retour du politique en philosophie. Sylvie Courtine-Denamy. Paris: Éditions du Cerf, "La Nuit Surveillée" series, 2014.…
Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss Eric Voegelin, Leo Strauss, and Hannah Arendt were all forced to flee Germany when that country fell under the sway of the…
It would take a very fat volume or two to do justice to the subject of Voegelin and his contemporaries. I would like to begin by indicating…
. . . .The delimitation of subject matter through the emotions aroused by the fate of human beings is the strength of Dr. Arendt's book. The concern…
Selected Correspondence 1950-1984 (The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 30). Thomas Hollweck, ed. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2007. This big volume is one…
All of the critiques point toward the fundamental objection that Nietzsche was to express so powerfully. That is, that liberal politics had cut itself off from its…