Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss on the Natural Law: Differing Approaches
Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss were both driven to reconsider the status of the knowability of the natural law by their opposition to the regnant dogmas of…
Voegelin, Freud and Totem and Taboo
In his writings Voegelin makes several references to Sigmund Freud, but he never engaged in the type of sustained philosophical analysis that he carried out with figures…
Calvin, Gnosis, and Anti-Philosophy: Voegelin’s Intepretation of the Reformation
The Reformation movements of fifteenth-century Europe have been variously described as a cultural advance, a civilizational disruption with continuities, a religious revival, a heresy of "invincible error…
Does God Have a History?
Let us begin our inquiry with the following datum: The human experience of the Divine Reality has often, though not always, been an encounter with a personal…
Scientism Unbound: Baudrillard and the Critique of Technology (Part I)
“The damage of scientism is done.”1 So said Eric Voegelin in 1948, amidst the afterglow of the allied defeat of fascism on the continent. The damage he…
Simone Weil and Eric Voegelin: Two Paths to the Same Truth
Rejecting Ideology With Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) and Simone Weil (1909-1943), we are confronted with two philosophers who examine events, understand their present, and consider the "disorder" of…
The Failure of Immanentist Metaphysics
The Aristotelian speculation ends in a serious impasse, both practically and theoretically. Practically, the discovery of the truth seems to serve no other purpose than to forge…
D.H. Lawrence: A Question of Stature
When your copy of the Sewanee Review arrived, we were just reading Lady Chatterley - submitting to the social necessity of having to read a book everybody talks about.…
Eric Voegelin and the Stefan George Circle
Late in life Eric Voegelin recorded that his own work on Plato was done "in the spirit" of the Plato scholars of the Stefan George circle. [1]…