The Methods of Voegelin, Strauss, and Arendt
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…
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…
Dismissive Views of Shamanism A generation ago anthropologists often dismissed shamanism as “a made-up, modern, Western category, an artful reification of disparate practices, snatches of folklore and…
Remember that it is not you who sustain the root; the root sustains you. -Roman 11:18 Voegelin, Mysticism, and the Stone Age Before discussing the evidence…
Voegelin Recollected: Conversations on a Life. Barry Cooper and Jodi Bruhn, eds. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2008. Conversations is a telling account 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…
Q. Why did Voegelin found the institute in Munich? peter j. opitz: About 1952 or '53, you can find letters where he expresses interest in going back…
The South Dinning Hall JOHN ROOS: We would often watch out for Voegelin on campus. There was a professor named Anton-Hermann Chroust, a real character. He was…
Q. In the letters between Voegelin and Strauss, there are many statements about how they're going to meet in Chicago, or going to meet in New York.…
Q. When Voegelin lived in Baton Rouge he was ill a couple of times, too, wasn't he? jo scurria: I'll never forget it. He had serious colon…
LISSY VOEGELIN: After we arrived from Europe, we were in New York for two days. PAUL CARINGELLA: They arrived in New York, and just as they got…
A Well-Thought-Out Program of Study During its brief period of operation, from 1918 to 1929, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, according to Robert M. Hutchins, “did more…
“Inside baseball” has become a metaphor to describe sports reporters who rely on locker room gossip rather than what happens on the playing field. There is an…
There are major differences between the way that the political implications of Islam have been worked out historically and the political order of liberal, constitutional democracy. It…
In the course of the analysis of Islamist terrorism, we made a basic analytical distinction that needs to be discussed in more detail. On the one hand,…
It's the Regime, Stupid!: A Report from the Cowboy West on Why Stephen Harper Matters. Barry Cooper. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2009. Only a political theorist…