Spoiling One’s Story: The Case of Hannah Arendt
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…
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…
The writings of Augustine analyzed by Voegelin and Jonas have to do with the transformative liberation of the human race from the disorientation and cupidity due to…
In the realm of "phenomenology of the neighbor," perhaps no one has contributed more than the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. But the generation before preceded his ontology of…
It is probably well known among Voegelin scholars that one really could not get to square one with Professor Voegelin on the subject of Heidegger. In his…
I The death of Martin Heidegger was front page news in the New York Times on May 27, 1976: “Martin Heidegger, a Philosopher who Affected Many Fields,…
In our new examination of Heidegger’s and Kierkegaard’s relationship of thinking we will realize that certain common aspects arise in their approach to the reality of the…
Introduction The prospect of universal justice is alluring. Right-minded persons would agree that a world whose entire population were treated fairly and equitably would constitute a vast…
Living Under the Spell of Heidegger Modern intellectual discourse is still under the spell of the Heideggerian project. Once it had broken away from its German moorings,…
In surviving letters we can often find those candid expressions that help us complete a portrait of the writer. Such is the case with the publication of…
Heidegger's Place in Modern Philosophy Martin Heidegger was the culminating figure of twentieth-century philosophy. For better or worse he is the one who carries philosophy forward to…
Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition: Explorations in Modern Political Thought. Lee Trepanier and Steven F. McGuire, eds. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2011. I…
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…