The Problem of the Debate An unquestionable premise of democracy: public decisions are affected by public opinion. Daily observation of the manifestation of public debate may, however,…
In the history of philosophy, what is the permanent achievement of the Pre-Socratics? Did they attain anything in thought that we can rightly credit to them? Or…
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…
In 1944, the American Political Science Review published a short essay by Eric Voegelin titled “Political Theory and the Pattern of General History”–subsequently reprinted in The Collected…
Eric Voegelin published his essay “The Oxford Political Philosophers” in 1953, a time of prosperity in Britain, which had gradually recovered from the ravages of World War…
Eric Voegelin’s 1956 essay “Necessary Moral Bases for Communication in a Democracy” is of tremendous worth to the careful analyst of 21st century American political thought. It…
The goal of this volume is to demonstrate the relevance of Eric Voegelin’s works from the 1950’s and early 1960’s to the political atmosphere of the early…
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…
Annäherungen an Eric Voegelins politische Philosophie Tagung zum 60. Jubiläum der deutschen Erstveröffentlichung der New Science of Politics Freitag, 22. November 2019 15.00 Uhr Nicoletta Scotti Muth…
In part five of this essay we looked closely at the forgotten early modern Platonic thinkers Giordano Bruno, Ralph Cudworth and Anne Conway and their theories of…
In this fifth part of the essay I would like to consider what a Platonic speculative realism might tell us about Eros – desire in all its…
In part one of this essay we looked closely at Voegelin’s debts to the process philosophers A. N. Whitehead, William James and Henri Bergson. Nonetheless, there is…
In part one of this essay we looked at Eric Voegelin’s debts to the process thinkers A.N. Whitehead, William James and Henri Bergson. In part 2 we…
As we saw at the end of part one of this essay Voegelin’s anti-foundationalism is obviously something of a fragile and quixotic venture. Steven McGuire is not…
Recently I overheard a little aphorism. It went: the philosophy of the 20th century was largely epistemological and agnostic. The philosophy of the 21st century is shaping…
