Obedience and the Philosopher’s Questions
Man is a composite being comprising two bodies: the physical body and the spiritual body. The spiritual body comprises the tripartite soul: intellect, will and passions. The…
Eric Voegelin: Economics with a Moral Grounding
Methodology is not a value-free tool in economic analysis, leading some to conclude economics itself cannot be a value free science. The presumption of every economic methodology…
Eric Voegelin and the Divine in World History
Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) was one of the greatest political theorists of the twentieth century. Along with Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and Leo Strauss (1899-1973), he is usu-ally named…
Preface for Chinese Translation of New Science of Politics
The original publication of The New Science of Politics in 1952 was a major event and established Eric Voegelin’s academic reputation in the United States. Time, a…
Preface to The New Science of Politics (Chinese Edition)
Eric Voegelin’s The New Science of Politics, is probably his best-known book, at least in the sense that it has been in print in English since 1952.…
Neo-Totalitarianism, The Beginning of Anarchic Civilization? A Voegelin Reading of Our Time
“No one is obliged to take part in the spiritual crisis of a society; on the contrary, everyone is obliged to avoid this folly and live his…
Commentaries on the Work of Eric Voegelin
The Voegelinian Revolution: A Biographical Introduction. Ellis Sandoz. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981; Second Edition, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2000. Eric Voegelin: Philosopher of…
The Concept of Gnosticism and the Analysis of Spiritual Disorder
This article attempts to establish a rather simple point: Although Eric Voegelin’s analysis of spiritual disorder or “Gnosticism” stands as one of the greatest accomplishments of 20th…
Gnosticism and Modernity: Voegelin’s Reconsiderations Twenty Years after The New Science of Politics
In 1971, Notre Dame University held a conference to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Voegelin’s Walgren Lectures given at the University of Chicago and published the following…
Voegelin on Gnosticism, Modernity, and the Balance of Consciousness
The twentieth century was an era of unprecedented horror. From the Russian Revolution through the two world wars to the Chinese “Cultural Revolution” and the Cambodian “killing…
Voegelin’s Place in Modern Philosophy
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 on the Incarnate Christ
In his 1965 Ingersoll Lecture “Immortality: Experience and Symbol” Eric Voegelin declared that “the symbolism of incarnation would express the experience, with a date in history, of…
Augustine’s Confessions and Voegelin’s Philosophy
Though Eric Voegelin took his epigraph for Order and History from Augustine, he wrote little about the saint and published nothing about the Confessions.1 He linked his philosophy of history to…
The Question of Order. Eric Voegelin’s Introduction to a New Sociology
“What is permanent in the history of mankind is not the symbols but man himself in search of his humanity and its order.” (E. Voegelin, Equivalents of…
History as Progress or Reversal? The Mythical Prognostications of Kojève and McLuhan
Introduction The “End of History,” as the Marxist philosopher Alexandre Kojève argued, signified the triumph of rational atheism in which man makes himself God and abolishes the…
