The Autobiographical Lecture

 

On June 26, 1973, Ellis Sandoz interviewed Eric Voegelin about his biography and intellectual thinking. This recording is preserved as a downloadable file here on VOEGELINVIEW and is also available on YouTube. It is reposted here as a reminder that the entirety of the five hour interview is available as a single file on VOEGELINVIEW’S YouTube channel.

During the interview, the listener is guided through the history of Vienna, art, music, philosophy, politics, psychology, World War I, the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, Voegelin’s refugee life, his arrival in the United States, and commentary on communism, Marxism, and why the Soviet Union would collapse and American society would transform going into the future. Voegelin’s reflections on art, economics, political theory, philosophy, psychology, theology, and political events serves as the inspiration of our journal’s broad commitment to the arts and humanities and the politics of liberty and self-governance.
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Eric Voegelin (1901-85) was a German-born American Political Philosopher. He was born in Cologne and educated in Political Science at the University of Vienna, at which he became Associate Professor of Political Science. In 1938 he and his wife fled from the Nazi forces which had entered Vienna and emigrated to the United States, where they became citizens in 1944. He spent most of his academic career at the University of Notre Dame, Louisiana State University, the University of Munich and the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. More information about him can be found under the Eric Voegelin tab on this website.

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