Political History Through the Eyes of Eric Voegelin
In his Autobiographical Reflections, Eric Voegelin recounted the moment when he had abandoned writing a history of political ideas to write a history of political order rooted…
In his Autobiographical Reflections, Eric Voegelin recounted the moment when he had abandoned writing a history of political ideas to write a history of political order rooted…
“Most thought-provoking for our thought-provoking times is that we are still not thinking.” - Martin Heidegger Intellectually, and not only, we now live in a desert.…
In The Australian, July 22-23, 2023, there was an article by John Carroll titled Death of the Humanities. Carroll began by observing that in some American universities,…
Eric Voegelin is one of the most prominent political theorists of the 20th century. Many theorists associate his name with the following works: The Political Religions (1938),…
*Note: This was originally a paper presented at the 2023 APSA When we talk of living in history, what are we saying? Eric Voegelin credits the…
One of the big takeaways of Voegelin’s philosophy is the insight that our symbolizations of divinity emerge not as the affirmation of a fact, but as the…
To say there is a crisis in philosophy could be the understatement of the past few centuries. Ever since Kant, and especially since Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the…
The autobiographical lecture of Eric Voegelin, in its entirety, at nearly 5 hours long, is now available on VOEGELINVIEW's YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/j1VraDfNodw VOEGELINVIEW is free to read…
Hannah Arendt and Eric Voegelin are two of the greatest political thinkers of the 20th century. With similar background and stories (both Germans who fled from Nazism…
The Eric Voegelin Institute hosted a three part webinar series on Eric Voegelin and his interlocutors. This series included commentary on the relationship of Eric Voegelin with…
This essay was presented to the Eric Voegelin Society on 26 September, 2022. The Hidden God has chosen to speak. Or, to put it more abstractly,…
The Eric Voegelin Institute will be hosting a three part webinar series on Eric Voegelin and his interlocutors. The series will include: Voegelin and Heidegger (Feb 8),…
For both William Desmond and Eric Voegelin, Plato’s concept of the metaxu or metaxy is of paramount importance. Described by Plato in the Symposium and other works,…
David Dyzenhaus’s essay in Aeon, “Democracy or apocalypse,” was written under the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, though the author is not interested in that…
For Eric Voegelin, the realm of the “in-between” is humanity’s proper habitat. Temptations to depart this realm, which may be termed the historical condition, come at us…