Russian Political Symbols, Culture, and Civil Society
The promise of order and justice after the collapse of the Soviet Union has not been fulfilled in Putin’s Russia, with no political symbol emerging for her…
The promise of order and justice after the collapse of the Soviet Union has not been fulfilled in Putin’s Russia, with no political symbol emerging for her…
A Letter to Alfred Schütz January 1, 1953 My dear friend, How could I begin the New Year better than with a reply to your kind, so…
A Letter to G. H. Müller January 27, 1978 Dear Mr. Mueller: Your letter, dated Fall 1977, has been lying unanswered on my desk.1 The reason:…
These other types of repercussion are less tangible forms of blowback, such as disease or environmental disaster, but are equally worrisome. They are perceptual in nature and…
Dear Robert: Your kindness has caused me considerable pangs of conscience. Such attention to detail must have cost you much more time than I had anticipated it…
In 1968, Eric Voegelin’s The New Science of Politics was published in Italian by Borla, translated by Renato Pavetto, and with an introduction authored by Catholic philosopher…
The communist ideology in China is in decline. The emperor, as the expression goes, has no clothes. Yet most liberal critiques of the present regime do not…
According to the popular idea, [democracy] is a form of government where the government does what the people want; and the people secure a government which acts…
Over the years I have paid considerable attention to Irving Babbitt (1865-1933) in my teaching and writing. From time to time, students and others who have learnt…
[In the Critique of Judgement, Kant] explicitly declares "praiseworthy" the efforts to trace morphological kinships with the help of comparative anatomy in order to find a system…
[Through seeking] the divine, the loving reaching out beyond ourselves toward the divine in the philosophical experience and the loving encounter through the Word in the pneumatic…
[Election] law, however, is not an autonomous sphere with its own laws of justice. It does not have the purpose of giving every ethnic group with special…
Dear Beverly:1 Thanks for your charming letter of November 16th. It was a great pleasure indeed, to meet you at last, after we had such extensive relations…
A Forerunner: Helvétius The historian of ideas has to do more than report the doctrine advanced by a thinker or give an account of a few great…
It feels a little strange to raise the question of Leo Strauss’s relationship to Catholicism when his relationship to Judaism has scarcely been clarified. If we could…