Hannah Arendt: The German Years
Hannah Arendt is one of the great thinkers of the 20th century. Her influence in the field of political thought is enormous, and shows no sign of…
Heidegger During the War
It is well known that Heidegger actively supported the Nazis during the first years of their power. In 1933 he became rector of the university in Freiburg,…
Leo Strauss on Nazism: A Theologico-Political Interpretation
Leo Strauss was one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, in large part because he undertook a systematic reexamination of the meaning of…
Carl Schmitt’s Political Theory during the Third Reich
Schmitt’s eagerness to enter in the antechamber of power and to advise those with decision-making power was evident by his decision to move from the University of…
Eric Voegelin on Race, Hitler, and National Socialism
Eric Voegelin barely escaped Austria with his life in 1938, after the Gestapo had failed to confiscate his passport.[1] Having given anti-Nazi lectures and published two books…
Paths to Salvation: The National Socialist Religion
Paths to Salvation: The National Socialist Religion. Klaus Vondung. Translated by William Petropulos. South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine’s Press, 2019. As a young scholar, working in…
Reconsidering the Nazi Era
The address which I am to deliver to you today was originally not planned as part of this series of lectures on "The German University and the…
The Preservation of Democracy
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…
Why Democracy Requires God
[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…
Into the Ecclesiastical Abyss: The Catholic Church
I dealt with the Evangelical Church the previous time. Now we must concern ourselves with the Catholic Church. I put the Evangelical Church first, not only because…
What is Society?
[Aristotle was plagued by such problems as whether a nation remained the same nation after a revolution]. He applied to the polis the categories of form and…