On Belonging
I know that I am a derived reality, that I am not self-caused. I am not the “ground” of my own being. But what is, then? We…
On the Cosmos
Reality, if one includes past, present, and future, is a narrative completeness of meaning to which we spontaneously relate ourselves. This unity, this wholeness of all meaning,…
On Honesty
Almost two hundred years ago, Søren Kierkegaard wrote: “Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the…
Frederick “Fritz” Wagner: An Appreciation (Chip Hughes)
Fritz Wagner was a gracious friend and colleague who invited me from the beginning of VoegelinView to have my essays appear on the site. He was incisive,…
Commentaries on the Work of Eric Voegelin
The Voegelinian Revolution: A Biographical Introduction. Ellis Sandoz. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981; Second Edition, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2000. Eric Voegelin: Philosopher of…
Timelessness of Proust: Reflections on In Search of Lost Time
Timelessness of Proust: Reflections on In Search of Lost Time. Charles R. Embry and Glenn Hughes, eds. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2019. This volume…
Review of The Eric Voegelin Reader
The Eric Voegelin Reader: Politics, History, Consciousness. Charles R. Embry, Glenn Hughes, eds. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2017) Eric Voegelin is one of the…
Eric Voegelin Studies: A Conversation with Charles Embry
What did "Don't immanentize the eschaton!" really mean? Richard M. Reinsch II of Liberty Law Talk interviews Charles Embry about Eric Voegelin and his, along with Glenn…
Hamlet, The Affective Roots of Decision, and Modernity
Hamlet is a play so rich in insight regarding human existence, so revelatory and reverberative, that Harold Bloom is justified in calling it a “poem unlimited."[1][2] All…
Equivalences of Experience, and Symbols of the Depth By Which Experience Lives
“Equivalences of Experience and Symbolization in History” (1971)[1] is, in my view, one of Eric Voegelin’s five most important stand-alone essays, along with “Immortality: Experience and Symbol”…
The Nature of Revolution
Revolutions: Finished and Unfinished, from Primal to Final. Paul Caringella, Wayne Critaudo, Glenn Hughes, eds. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012. Revolution is a term that has…
T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets: A Pattern of Timeless Moments
First Impressions My first encounter with T. S. Eliot's masterpiece, the poem-cycle Four Quartets, took place when I was twenty years old. The conditions were unusually felicitous.…
Emily Dickinson and the Unknown God
Of American poets taught regularly in secondary education, the two most ill-served are Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson. Students are typically introduced to these poets through their…
The Spiritual in Poetry and Art
A More Beautiful Question: The Spiritual in Poetry and Art. Glenn Hughes. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2011. Concerned with how art, and especially poetry,…