The Jagellonian Conference on Leo Strauss
Modernity and What Has Been Lost. Considerations on the Legacy of Leo Strauss. Pawel Armada and Arkadiusz Górnisiewicz, eds. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press / Krakow, The…
The Methods of Voegelin, Strauss, and Arendt
Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss Eric Voegelin, Leo Strauss, and Hannah Arendt were all forced to flee Germany when that country fell under the sway of the…
Voegelin and His Contemporaries
It would take a very fat volume or two to do justice to the subject of Voegelin and his contemporaries. I would like to begin by indicating…
Voegelin at Baton Rouge (Part III)
Q. In the letters between Voegelin and Strauss, there are many statements about how they're going to meet in Chicago, or going to meet in New York…
Reflections on the Strauss-Voegelin Correspondence
The fascinating correspondence between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin raises more questions than it answers, if merely taken by itself.l To be sure, a number of extremely…
Disturbing Revelation: Strauss, Voegelin, and the Bible
Disturbing Revelation: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Bible. John J. Ranieri. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2009. In Disturbing Revelation: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin,…
The Collected Works: Selected Correspondence 1950-1984 (Volume 30)
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…
Modern Views of Plato’s Silence (Part II)
Leo Strauss joins the debate about Platonic silence on the side of Gott-hold Lessing.60 Perhaps he also sides with Friedrich Nietzsche secretly. He opposes Friedrich Schleiermacher and…
Eros, Wisdom and Silence of Plato (Part II)
Classical and Contemporary Eros In the Theages, Demodocus, a rural landowner and a committed democrat, approaches Socrates with his son Theages in tow. Demodocus is fearful because…