Eric Voegelin in the News
Some recent references to Eric Voegelin in the news are below. First Things, "Gnostic Politics." First Things, "A Vivid Sense of the Real." NewStatesman, "The Prophets of…
Cana Academy Interview with Lee Trepanier
Cana Academy's interview with Lee Trepanier is available here.
Towards a Participatory Historiography Pt. II: The Liturgics of an Erotic Polis
With Plato’s terming of philosophy as the pursuit of aletheia, the disciple is concerned primarily with the retrieval and conservation of memory. In other words, philosophy is…
Towards a Participatory Historiography Pt. I: The Erotic Teleology
As Socrates rounds off his palinode to Eros in the Phaedrus, he reiterates that this effort has been made as an atonement for Lysias’s sacrilege against the…
Representation in Politics: Transcendental Dreaming and Existential Crisis
Abstract[1] This paper focuses on what Voegelin’s text The New Science of Politics and what he calls “unrestrained modernity” alongside an exploration of the problem of infinity…
The End of History, Identity Politics, and Transcendence
Alexandre Kojève is one of Hegel’s most widely read commentators in the Western world, and his influence in the 20th and 21st centuries was immense. Behind the…
Dumpster Diving for Cicero
Five years ago, an institution of learning in my neighborhood began to throw out perfectly fine books. Works from Shakespeare to Tolkien to Wyndham were tossed from…
Abigail Adams Institute Voegelin Event: February 16, 2021
Next Tuesday, February 16th, the Abigail Adams Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts welcomes Research Fellow Dr. J. David Franks for Scholars Workshop presentation and discussion on his forthcoming article titled: Apocalypse of…
Eric Voegelin’s Socratic Project. The Noetic Origins and the Intellectual Intentions of the New Science of Politics – A Study in Intellectual History
I. A Scholar at the Crossroads: The Walgreen Lectures[1] On February 20, 1950 Eric Voegelin received an invitation from Professor Jerome G. Kerwin, Chairman of the Charles…
The Figure of Socrates and its Significance for Liberal Education in Asia
The question of how the Western ideal of liberal education fits with Asian cultures is longstanding.[1][2] Our present time is one characterized by an opening up between…
Pyramids of Skulls: Unacceptable Violence, Transcendence, and the Image of Timur in the Thought of Eric Voegelin and Contemporary Scholarship
In 2007, the educational publisher Scholastic Library Publishing initiated a series under the title A Wicked History. The series targeted readers from ages 11-17 and sought to…
The Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Ecumene
The rise of Asia, especially China, has raised a unique challenge for western political scientists in trying to understand and predict whether civilizational conflict and war will…
Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought
Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought. Lee Trepanier, ed.. Lexington Books, 2020 As humans, we have always been confronted with a perennial question, i.e., how to engage…
Order in Chinese Society: Analysing the Insights of Eric Voegelin and the Confucius Chun Tzu (Part II)
In Part I, the philosophical insights of Eric Voegelin were examined in the work of one of China’s greatest literary figures, Lu Xun. One of the most…
Order in Chinese Society: Analysing the Insight of Eric Voegelin and the Twentieth Century Writer, Lu Xun (Part I)
The aim here is to examine the ordering principle in Chinese society drawing on the philosophical insights of Eric Voegelin and one of China’s greatest literary figures…
