2021 VoegelinView Themes
Our themes for 2021 are below! Please feel free to submit proposals about any topic, but note that preference would be given to those works that address…
Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich (1926-2002) was a one-time Catholic priest, Austrian philosopher, and anarchist social critic of various forms of professional authority. His foremost critique of modern culture was…
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The evforum is the online Voegelin discussion group that has existed for 20 years. It is available here. If you are interested in joining please email Steven…
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Devoted to the revitalization of teaching and understanding of Eric Voegelin’s work and the fundamental expressions of human civilization in culture, philosophy, education, science, and politics, VoegelinView…
Politics, Literature, and Film Book Proposals
Lexington Books’ Politics, Literature, and Film series is actively seeking proposals for academic works that fit the description below: This interdisciplinary series examines the intersection of politics…
Keep Civil Conversation Alive
Devoted to the revitalization of teaching and understanding of Eric Voegelin’s work and the fundamental expressions of human civilization in culture, philosophy, education, science, and politics, VoegelinView…
The Comparative Politics of Eric Voegelin
These three essays–“Democracy in the New Europe” (1959), “Industrial Society in Search for Reason” (1960), and “Democracy and Industrial Society” (1964)–were written in a period of transition…
Eric Voegelin Today: Voegelin’s Political Thought in the 21st Century
Eric Voegelin Today: Voegelin’s Political Thought in the 21st Century. Scott Robinson, Lee Trepanier, and David Whitney, eds. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. Professor Scott Robinson, writing…
The Postmodern Condition of Cosmopolitanism
The advent of globalization has prompted both democratic and cosmopolitan theorists to reconceptualize democracy, citizenship, and political community, as “the ideals of citizenship clash with the sovereign…
Enemy Images, Evidence, and Cognitive Dissonance: The Cold War as Recalled by Michiganders
This chapter is a summary of Michiganders’ view of three Cold War events: the communist infiltration of labor unions in the 1940s, McCarthyism in the 1950s, and…
Aristotelian Citizenship for a Multicultural World
One the debates confronting liberal democracies is how to conceive of citizenship in an age of multiculturalism. Liberal political theorists regard citizenship as primary a legal entity…
Statesmanship and Democracy in a Global and Comparative Context
One of the most pressing and central problems in a democracy is that of political leadership. While it appears that democracy is a universally-lauded form of politics,…
Teaching the American Political Tradition in a Global Context
Education is the task of crafting the souls of students; it is never simply about conveying information so that students can enlarge their body of knowledge. While…
In Search of Meaning: Politics and Religion in Eric Voegelin’s Thought
Harvard Abigail Adams Institute is hosting a weekend seminar on the thought of Eric Voegelin on September 27-28, 2019. Eric Voegelin (1901–1985) was a German-American political scientist…
SoTL as a Subfield for Political Science Graduate Programs
Today the discipline of political science is faced with the challenges of demonstrating its public worth, finding employment for its doctoral students, and discovering a common language…
