Manfred Henningsen

Manfred Henningsen is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii. He received his Ph.D. under Eric Voegelin in Munich in 1967. He published, in addition to Der Fall Amerika (Munich, 1974) and Der Mythos Amerika (Eichborn, 2009), essays on Voegelin's thought and edited, among other things, the German edition of Hitler and the Germans. He is working now on a project, Terror and Memory.

Eric Voegelin and the German Left

February 13, 2018
Manfred Henningsen

The memory of Eric Voegelin as a political philosopher is overshadowed in the USA and Germany by his reputation of having been a proponent of conservatism. In…

The Disintegration of Traditional Civilizations

February 22, 2017
Manfred Henningsen

In the summer issue of 1993 the journal Foreign Affairs published an article by Samuel Huntington under the title “The Clash of Civilizations?” whose themes he enlarged…

Manfred Henningsen