Our List of Christmas Holiday Readings and Books of the Year for 2018
Brought to you by the friends of and contributors to VoegelinView! Michael Henry (St. John’s University) Michael Walsh's The Fiery Angel: Art, Culture, Sex, Politics, and…
Brought to you by the friends of and contributors to VoegelinView! Michael Henry (St. John’s University) Michael Walsh's The Fiery Angel: Art, Culture, Sex, Politics, and…
Thanks to Steven F. McGuire for organizing the symposium on John von Heyking's book, The Form of Politics: Aristotle and Plato on Friendship! Please see the features…
I thank Steven McGuire for organizing this symposium and Lee Trepanier for publishing it here on Voegelinview. Away from the friendships unfriendly that dominate the internet and…
In The Form of Politics, John von Heyking directs his readers to the critical importance of friendship in the political thought of Aristotle and Plato. The title…
I’d like to take a road trip with John von Heyking. I don’t know if he and I could ever achieve that rare gem which is friendship,…
John von Heyking’s analysis of friendship in The Form of Politics centers on the Greek concept of sunaisthesis, the triangle of perception and recognition that occurs when…
The Italian philosopher and statesman, Benedetto Croce, once wrote that, “politics and filth are so frequently identified in the ordinary conversation of people that the thoughtful person…
For I saw it was impossible to do anything without friends and loyal followers; and to find such men ready to hand would be a piece of…
Thank-you Professor Cheng, the Lingnan University Office of Global Education, and the sponsors of this conference for inviting me to join you at this crucially important conference…
Brought to you by the friends of and contributors to VoegelinView! Jonathan Radcliffe (Australian National University) Kojin Karatani's Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy Karatani is…
Liu Xiaobo was the Chinese dissident writer and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize recipient who passed away this past June. He died of liver cancer while serving out…
Michael Henry, in his contribution to this volume, reports on the experience of James Rhodes, whose life changed when, as an undergraduate at the University of Notre…
Conversation and the “Turning Around of the Soul” One of the common criticisms of the contemporary university is that it lacks individuals unwilling or incapable of conversing.…
To be a teacher of the humanities at a university means participating in a community dedicated to inquiring into the good for human beings. As members of…
Brought to you by the friends of and contributors to Voegelinview! Jacqueline Pfeffer-Merrill (Fund for Academic Renewal) Dickens' other fine Christmas pieces besides A Christmas Carol…