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Eric Voegelin (born Erich Hermann Wilhelm Vögelin, German: [ˈføːgəliːn]; January 3, 1901 – January 19, 1985) was a German-American political philosopher. He was born in Cologne, and educated in political science at the University of Vienna, where he became an associate professor of political science in the law faculty.
Eric Voegelin (born Jan. 3, 1901, Cologne—died Jan. 19, 1985, Stanford, Calif., U.S.) was a German-American political scientist and interdisciplinary scholar known for his studies of modern political thought and for his efforts to create a comprehensive philosophy of man, society, and history.
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Feb 20, 2011 · In this review published in the early 1980s, Gregory Wolfe looks at an early collection of essays on the work of the philosopher Eric Voegelin (1901–1985), who famously criticized ideological efforts to “immanentize the eschaton.”
Jun 25, 2018 · Of all the major non-leftist thinkers of the twentieth century, Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) remains, perhaps, the most difficult to understand. While some of his ideas simply pop off the page, most linger in some kind of morass of stumped curiosity within the brain of even the most willing.
The German-Austrian political theorist Eric Voegelin (1901-1985), who became an American citizen after exile from Nazi Germany, will probably gain influence as the most subtle rethinker of Augustine's City of God and the leading Christian philosopher of history of the 20th century.
Nov 25, 2014 · The first work is the more easily understood, and it also has perhaps the more intriguing topic: the philosophic sources of the crisis in Western Civilization. Voegelin examines Bossuet, Voltaire, Helvetius, Turgot, Comte, Bakunin, Marx, and a variety of minor actors.
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Who Was Eric Voegelin & What Did He Think? A ZOOM LECTURE SERIES (five Wednesdays at 11:30 am Central Time) based on Charles R. Embry & Glenn Hughes, The Eric Voegelin Reader: Politics, History, Consciousness (Missouri, 2017) [see table of contents below]
