To say there is a crisis in philosophy could be the understatement of the past few centuries. Ever since Kant, and especially since Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the…
Many years ago, a man, who was hiking along the arduous path of life’s journey to reach the high summit behind which the sun cast its bright…
The modern world is defined by the rise of a new self that is neither mind, nor body, nor a function of either, but an autonomous entity…
“Expel nature with a pitchfork, but every time it will return as conqueress to stealthily break through bilious aversions” (Horace, Epistles, 1.10)[1] Modern discourse has expelled nature…
Submission, by Michel Houellebecq, is a book whose layers of meaning a counterpoint to so much of the shallowness of our culture. The fact that this contemporary…
Rémi Brague. Curing Mad Truths: Medieval Wisdom for the Modern Age. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019. In this collection of lectures, Brague begins…
On December 18, 2020 VoegelinView published a review of my book "The Figure of Modernity. On the Irregularity of an Epoch", written by Lee Trepanier. After I…
The Figure of Modernity: On the Irregularity of an Epoch. Tilo Schabert. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020. What is modernity and from where does it come? What…
Political theorists, like literary and social theorists, occupy a kind of twilight zone in relation to philosophy. Their disciplines are at once empirical and philosophical, an indeterminate…
Eric Voegelin (1901-85) is often portrayed as one of the severest critics of modernity–its belief in human reason’s ability to understand and convey the fundamental structures of…
The Theological Origins of Modernity. Michael Allen Gillespie. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Seeking to clarify what we mean by “modernity,” Michael Gillespie provides an…
In view of an unfolding global modernity, Voegelin proposed “the empirical thesis that the philosophical investigation of the realm of phenomena has always drawn its dynamism from…
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…
The Crisis of Modernity. Augusto Del Noce with Carlo Lancellotti, ed. and trans. Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 2014. An important book has been published. Let us…
In 1968, Eric Voegelin’s The New Science of Politics was published in Italian by Borla, translated by Renato Pavetto, and with an introduction authored by Catholic philosopher…