Process and the Derailing of Reality: Erotic Theology (Part VI)
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…
Process and the Derailing of Reality: Love and Violence (Part V)
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…
Process and the Derailing of Reality: The Strange Curse of the Ages of the World (Part IV)
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…
Process and the Derailing of Reality: Catherine Pickstock and the Return of Platonic Cosmology (Part III)
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…
Process and the Derailing of Reality: Haunted Ontologies and Different Modes of Existence (Part II)
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…
Process and the Derailing of Reality: Voegelin, Process and the New Realism (Part I)
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…
Understanding Voegelin’s Critique of Locke
No matter how conservative intellectuals try, they just do not seem able to escape John Locke. Jonah Goldberg’s well-received Suicide of the West proudly called America’s Declaration of…
Democracy and That Other Sort of Man
"Thus the world is like an oil press: under pressure. If you are the dregs of the oil you are carried away through the sewer; if you…
Plato’s Apology and the Gorgias: Yearning for Political and Spiritual Regeneration
In the Gorgias, like the Protagoras, Socrates must confront one of the great figures of his time, Gorgias of Leontini, who is not merely a rhetorician, but…
In Search of Meaning: Politics and Religion in Eric Voegelin’s Thought
Harvard Abigail Adams Institute is hosting a weekend seminar on the thought of Eric Voegelin on September 27-28, 2019. Eric Voegelin (1901–1985) was a German-American political scientist…
Timelessness of Proust: Reflections on In Search of Lost Time
Timelessness of Proust: Reflections on In Search of Lost Time. Charles R. Embry and Glenn Hughes, eds. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2019. This volume…
The Flame is Lit: A Man of His Times and His Quest For Truth
The Crisis of the West That Shaped His Life Eric Voegelin lived in age of unusually disruptive wars, economic collapse, political strife, and social disruption. While there…
A Guide to Understanding Eric Voegelin’s Political Reality
A Guide to Understanding Eric Voegelin’s Political Reality. Montgomery C. Erfourth. South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine’s Press, 2019. A Guide to Understanding Eric Voegelin’s Political Reality…
Eric Voegelin’s “On Classical Studies”
Eric Voegelin’s essay “On Classical Studies” is, among the late published essays included in Volume 12 of his Collected Works, both the shortest piece, in terms of…
On Classical Studies
A reflection on classical studies, their purpose and prospects, will properly start from Wolf’s definition of classic philology as the study of man’s nature as it has…
