Response to “The Figure of Modernity” & The Cosmology of the Architecture of Cities
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
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…
Eric Voegelin’s Redemption of Modernity
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…
On Voegelin: Modernity and Gnosticism
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…
Religious Modernity
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…
Modernity Reconsidered: Multiple Modernities, Universal History and the Quest for a Civilizational Paradigm
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…
The Return of the Reactionary (Part II)
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…
Augusto Del Noce on the Societa Opulenta
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…
Voegelin’s Impact on the Italian Response to Modernity: The Parallel Lives and Works of Augusto del Noce and Eric Voegelin
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…
James V. Schall: A Warranted Pessimism?
The Modern Age. James V. Schall, S.J. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2011. Most readers will need little introduction to James V. Schall, S.J. Father…
