Who Owns the Timeline? Covenant in Buber, Voegelin, and Ourselves
*Note: This was originally a paper presented at the 2023 APSA When we talk of living in history, what are we saying? Eric Voegelin credits the…
The Indelible Presence of the Divine: Eric Voegelin on the Meaning of Symbols
One of the big takeaways of Voegelin’s philosophy is the insight that our symbolizations of divinity emerge not as the affirmation of a fact, but as the…
Israel and the Cosmological Empires of the Ancient Orient
Israel and the Cosmological Empires of the Ancient Orient: Symbols of Order in Eric Voegelin’s Order and History, vol. 1, Eric Voegelin Studies, Supplements/01. Ignacio Carbajosa and…
Eric Voegelin Society Mini-Conference January 3, 2022
Eric Voegelin Society Mini-Conference January 3, 2022via Zoom: https://lsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcof-uvrTotGtSSb1DuyVVsvYiKdBHIrz6n Welcome: 12:00-12:05 pm EST (5:00-5:05 pm GMT) – David Walsh, Catholic University of America Panel 1: 12:05-1:35 pm…
Legal Ontology: Does “The Law” Exist?
Greetings to those of you in Seattle, who now know the answer to the age-old question: “Where would we be without law?” Answer: “Seattle.” The title of…
Voegelin Conference (Zoom): December 3-4, 2021
Democracy and Representation: On the Relevance and Importance of Eric Voegelin’s Theory of Representation The relationship between democracy and representation is one of the basic questions of…
Irrational and stressful algorithms: Revisiting the Modern Gnosticism thesis through liminal incommensurability (part i)
The idea that the modern world, in particular modern knowledge and science, represents a victory of ancient Gnostic views, branded as heresies in the Christian era, is…
What Can Political Science Learn from Literature?
Since the behavioral revolution in the 1960s, political science has increasingly defined itself as the empirical, quantifiable study of politics.[2] Modeled after the natural sciences, behavioralism is…
Culture and History in Eric Voegelin and Christopher Dawson
In a time of secular ideology and positivist methodology, both Christopher Dawson and Eric Voegelin sought to recover the central role that religion and religious experience used…
On the World of Space and Time
Discovery of the transcendence of ultimate reality—whether undesrtood as Tao, Brahman, Yahweh, Logos, or in another fashion—alters how the “world,” initially experienced as the cosmos, comes to…
Voegelin on John Locke
Voegelin and Pneumopathology While Strauss’s and Macpherson’s arguments are both coherent and plausible, neither offers a deep or fully acceptable account of Locke’s moral priorities. Caution driven…
Sin and Covenant in Voegelin and Levinas
To sin is to make a wrong choice. It’s not a mistake. The enactor of a choice that is merely mistaken hasn’t chosen to make the mistake. …
The Voegelin-McLuhan Correspondence
Editorial Note This is the first part of a multipart series. It gives the 4 letters exchanged by Eric Voegelin and Marshall McLuhan in 1953. Other parts…
PhD Scholarship at Groningen: Voegelin, Gnosticism, and Philosophy
The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies and the Faculty of Arts offer a four-year scholarship to complete a PhD within a joint interdisciplinary project. The proposed…
What is Phronêsis? Voegelin and Aristotle
The virtue that Aristotle calls phronêsis . . . is an existential virtue; it is the movement of being, in which the divine order of the cosmos…