Platonism and Augustianism: Two Sources of Voegelin’s Vision of History
The question of history is among the most important, but also the most complex, in the philosophy of Eric Voegelin. I am not certain that he ever…
Strauss, Voegelin, and Arendt on the Good Society
De la bonne société. L. Strauss, E. Voegelin, H. Arendt. Le retour du politique en philosophie. Sylvie Courtine-Denamy. Paris: Éditions du Cerf, "La Nuit Surveillée" series, 2014.…
Tilo Schabert and the Primacy of Persons in Politics
The Primacy of Persons in Politics: Empiricism & Political Philosophy. John von Heyking and Thomas Heilke, eds. Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2013. This…
Hans Blumenberg: The Legitimacy of the Modern Age
To ask the question concerning "legitimacy of the modern age" represents an act characteristic of post-modernity, i.e. of a modernity which is suspicious of its own foundations.…
From “Political Theology” to “Political Religion”: Voegelin and Schmitt
In his book on Politics as Religions, Emilio Gentile credits Eric Voegelin with the invention of the concept of “political religions,” a concept that will be systematically…