Process and the Derailing of Reality: Erotic Theology (Part VI)
In part five of this essay we looked closely at the forgotten early modern Platonic thinkers Giordano Bruno, Ralph Cudworth and Anne Conway and their theories of…
In part five of this essay we looked closely at the forgotten early modern Platonic thinkers Giordano Bruno, Ralph Cudworth and Anne Conway and their theories of…
In this fifth part of the essay I would like to consider what a Platonic speculative realism might tell us about Eros – desire in all its…
In part one of this essay we looked closely at Voegelin’s debts to the process philosophers A. N. Whitehead, William James and Henri Bergson. Nonetheless, there is…
In part one of this essay we looked at Eric Voegelin’s debts to the process thinkers A.N. Whitehead, William James and Henri Bergson. In part 2 we…
As we saw at the end of part one of this essay Voegelin’s anti-foundationalism is obviously something of a fragile and quixotic venture. Steven McGuire is not…
Recently I overheard a little aphorism. It went: the philosophy of the 20th century was largely epistemological and agnostic. The philosophy of the 21st century is shaping…
Plato’s Republic. Alain Badiou with Susan Spitzer, trans. Polity Press, Cambridge, 2015. In the first two parts of this essay I outlined the millenarian Platonism of French…
Plato’s Republic. Alain Badiou with Susan Spitzer, trans. Polity Press, Cambridge, 2015. Part 2: Voegelin and Girard on Badiou. This is the second instalment in a three-part…
Plato’s Republic. Alain Badiou with Susan Spitzer, trans. Polity Press, Cambridge, 2015. Plenty of books have been written about Plato’s Republic. However, as far as I can…
Part 3: Whatever Happened to Nietzsche? This is the third part of our journey into the strange Other Wold of neo-reactionary political thought that began with an…
Part 2: Rebooting the Leviathan In the first part of this essay we looked at the phenomenon of the “alt right”. In this second piece we turn…
Part 1: Inside the Nazi CPU This is the first of a three part essay on the current rise in hard right political thought. My aim is…
This article is the first step towards a Voegelinian study of the history of the relationship between millenarianism and technology. In it I concentrate upon “transhumanism,” a…