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	Eric Voegelin
		Eric Voegelin (January 3, 1901- January 19, 1985) was a philosopher, born in Cologne, Germany, and educated in the fine arts at the University of Vienna, where he became a professor of political science at the Faculty of Law.
		Eric Voegelin viewed Gnosticism as the root of all evil aspects of modernity.
		He believed that the Gnostic impulse had been preserved throughout history and that the whole scientific enterprise, especially technology, was aimed towards creating "heaven on earth" and said he wanted to defend the "classic Christian tradition" against the attacks of "the Gnostics".
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/er/Eric_Voegelin.html (240 words)

	Logophobia - Eric Voegelin on SCIENTISM - The Intercollegiate Review, Fall 1999 - Author: Michael P. Federici Eric ...
		Eric Voegelin argued that positivism "rests on the assumption that the theological and metaphysical phases of the mind are transitory and not necessary." Accepting these doctrines leads to the conclusion that most of the intellectual and artistic work that shaped Western civilization is the product of mere opinion, prejudice, or tradition.
		Voegelin’s work is itself a response to the modern desire to be "scientific" and an attempt to restore political science to its classical roots.
		Voegelin’s creation of a new science of politics is meant to recover human experience as metaphysical reality, to establish the process of this recovery as scientific, and to restore human consciousness of metaphysical reality.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /federici.htm (3659 words)

	Eckhart Arnold: Voegelin Biography
		In Voegelin's opinion our knowledge of political order should be based on an authentic experience of transcendence fostered by the words of eminent philosophers and prophets; an experience that has largely fallen into oblivion due to the processes of secularization in modern times.
		In his early period (until 1938) Eric Voegelin tended to an authoritarian conservativism, somewhat influenced by the ideals of the circle around the sectarian german poet Stefan George.
		Although Eric Voegelin was certainly not a democrat at this time, his rejection of National Socialism must still be considered as genuine.
	www.eckhartarnold.de /english/trivia_voegelincv.html (610 words)

	New age / gnostic / eric voegelin
		However as Voegelin has a tendency to dismiss those he disagrees with, or who question his assumptions, as 'smart idiots' or as 'spiritually diseased', then these others may tend to wonder if it is not Voegelin who is avoiding the hard questions - especially as his work is so voluminous.
		Voegelin's works are often controversial, and are sometimes perceived as (merely) a large chain of loosely-linked facts, comprising a heterogeneous conspiracy theory.
		Ultimately, Voegelin's analysis of the disorder of the West and the rise of totalitarianism suggests that the primary cause is spiritual pathology rather than social disorganisation, or rather that the first inevitably leads to the second.
	www.new-age-guide.com /new_age/eric_voegelin.htm (2280 words)

	Eric Voegelin Resources -- Philosophy Books and Online Resources
		The Eric Voegelin Institute was established in March 1987 as part of the College of Arts and Sciences at LSU.
		Eric Voegelin came to America as a refugee from Nazi Germany after being fired at the University of Vienna in 1938 because of his resolute scholarly opposition to Adolf Hitler.
		The Eric Voegelin Institute itself is a humanities and social sciences research institute, devoted to the revitalization of teaching and understanding of the "great books" of Western civilization in comparison with other traditions.
	www.erraticimpact.com /~20thcentury/html/voegelin_eric.htm (640 words)

	Eric Voegelin Summary
		Eric Voegelin was born in Cologne, Germany, on January 3, 1901, and moved as a boy to Vienna, Austria.
		Voegelin's career as instructor at the University of Vienna was broad in its international interests, yet coupled with the practical problems of the civil service, such as supervision of schools.
		Voegelin was dismissed by the Nazis in 1938, and Voegelin and his wife narrowly escaped apprehension by the Gestapo.
	www.bookrags.com /Eric_Voegelin (3322 words)

	Eric Voegelin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eric Voegelin, born Erich Hermann Wilhelm Vögelin, (January 3, 1901 – January 19, 1985) was a political philosopher.
		Voegelin wrote extensively on what he perceived as the flawed concept of Christianity.
		According to Stephen McKnight, the post 1970 Voegelin found the emphasis of his readers on gnosticism to be frustrating.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eric_Voegelin (2439 words)

	INDEX
		Perhaps the most penetrating criticism of Eric Voegelin's work is that he is unintelligible as a result of the esoteric vocabulary he employs.
		Voegelin did find that there was a point where language failed, particularly when dealing with that which is ontologically transcendent, and as a result, he felt it necessary to redeem a substantial number of terms from the ancient Greek philosophers, as well as invest a number of contemporary terms with more potent content.
		Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Eric Voegelin was commonly ranked with Toynbee and Spengler as one of the three dominant philosophers of history in the twentieth century.
	www.evoegelin.homestead.com (925 words)

	FT December 2002: Eric Voegelin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Voegelin’s breadth of vision is evident in the fact that these concerns were always placed in the context of history.
		Voegelin’s hostility toward ideology and revolutionary action flows from his concept of gnosticism—one of the most widely known and debated of his ideas.
		Voegelin sensed that this unwillingness to submit to the structure of reality, and to bear the evils of the world, was a kind of spiritual disease, one that arose again in the Middle Ages and spread into modern times.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0212/reviews/tinder.html (1685 words)

	Eric Voegelin: Science, Politics and Gnosticism - Tom Brewton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Voegelin traced a connection between gnosticism and political ideologies that claim to have the key to history’s laws and (so) promise happiness, peace and fulfillment on this side of eternity.” (Note to the reader: Voegelin’s use of the term, “transcendental” does not refer to the ideas of such as Emerson and Thoreau.
		Voegelin was clearly influenced by the radical branch of Lutheranism typified by the theologies of Tillich, Bultmann, and Bonhoefer.
		Eric Voegelin succumbed to the gnawing gambit of gnosticity.
	americandaily.com /article/8379 (2523 words)

	Intercollegiate Studies Institute - ISI Books - Eric Voegelin
		For Voegelin, the "crisis of the West," reflected in the horrific wars and social chaos of the twentieth century, was the result of the gradual detachment of the our theoretical language from the unique, historical encounters with transcendence that lay at the foundation of Western civilization.
		The ultimate goal of Voegelin's project, Federici argues, was to liberate modern men and women from the grasp of ideologies, which Voegelin characterized as simplified constructions of reality that always distorted and obscured the truth.
		Eric Voegelin deserves a prominent place on the bookshelf of anyone interested in understanding the mind of perhaps the premier political philosopher of the last century, the great diagnostician of the crisis of our times.
	isi.org /books/bookdetail.aspx?id=1f985100-5752-4c6d-b7eb-1832696f0baa (517 words)

	Eschaton Redux. - Eric Voegelin: The Restoration of Order - book review National Review - Find Articles
		Voegelin's formulation does not merely restate conservative chestnuts about human nature or the inefficacy of state planning, but suggests a far more peculiar, if not counterintuitive, conclusion: The crisis of the West is at root spiritual and is precipitated by the misappropriation of its religious symbols.
		Ironically for a political philosopher, Voegelin downplayed the importance of politics, arguing instead that problems generally viewed as political could be rectified by a recovery of religious experience.
		Voegelin was not quite as gloomy as his fellow gloominaries; although Federici devotes one of his seven chapters to Voegelin's account of the "crisis of the West," he is at pains to insist that Voegelin did not regard the crisis as permanent.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_12_54/ai_87130373 (944 words)

	Eric Voegelin
		Photo Essay from the Eric Voegelin Society Annual Meeting in Chicago, September 2nd to September 5th, 2004.
		Photo Essay from the Eric Voegelin Society Annual Meeting in Boston, August 29th to September 1st, 2002.
		Eric Voegelin usually presented both theoretical analysis and characterization of individuals in the same study.
	www.fritzwagner.com /ev/eric_voegelin.html (420 words)

	Amazon.fr : Science, Politics, and Gnosticism: Livres en anglais: Eric Voegelin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In these essays, Voegelin contends that certain modern movements, including positivism, Hegelianism, Marxism, and the "God is dead" school, are variants of the gnostic tradition he identified in his classic work The New Science of Politics.
		Voegelin attempts to resolve the intellectual confusion that has resulted from the dominance of gnostic thought by clarifying the distinction between political gnosticism and the philosophy of politics.
		A masterwork of scholarship by Eric Voegelin, who has been hailed by the American Political Science Review as "one of the most distinguished interpreters to Americans of the non-liberal streams of European thought." 2 cassettes.
	www.amazon.fr /Science-Politics-Gnosticism-Eric-Voegelin/dp/0786102071 (333 words)

	Voegelin,Eric Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Voegelin conceived Order and History as "a philosophical inquiry concerning the principal types of order of human existence in society and history as well as the corresponding symbolic forms." In previous volumes, Voegelin discussed the imperial organizations...
		During the course of his lifelong, wide-ranging reflections on history and philosophy, Eric Voegelin naturally was drawn to speculate on the nature of law.
		Eric Voegelin's Israel and Revelation is the opening volume in his monumental Order and History, which traces the history of order in human society.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Voegelin,Eric (974 words)

	Eric Voegelin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Voegelin labored throughout his life to account for the endemic political violence of the twentieth century in an effort that is variously referred to as a philosophy of politics, history, or consciousness.
		The totalitarian impulse is derived from the alienation of the proponents of the policy from the rest of society.
		The Catholic catechism makes an oblique reference to the desire to "Immanentize the Eschaton" in article 676: :''The Antichrist's deception already begins to take shape in the World every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgment.
	eric-voegelin.iqnaut.net (1261 words)

	Amazon.ca: Eric Voegelin: The Restoration of Order: Books: Michael Federici (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		By concentrating on Voegelin's political philosophy, and with the aid of a hefty glossary of his terms, Federici makes accessible this extraordinary thinker's ideas.
		Even so, because Voegelin's work is so difficult, so loaded with new terms and complicated ideas, Federici's book also acquires an element of this density--probably unavoidable, but clarity does suffer somewhat at various points.
		Voegelin was not without his critics, but his influence is far-reaching.
	www.amazon.ca /Eric-Voegelin-Restoration-Michael-Federici/dp/1882926757 (544 words)

	Insights into Totalizing Ideologies, from Eric Voegelin [Free Republic]
		Voegelin essentially is saying the same thing: the rigidity of dogma, the games "totalizing" thinkers like to play with "the meaning of history" are cases in point.
		Voegelin argues that the theories of Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx, and Heidegger mirror the ancient gnostic movements that swept in from the Orient.
		Perhaps further discussion may elucidate the fact that Voegelin’s critique of dogmatists and gnostics is not evidence that he is a sophist and a devotee of a-rational or anti-rational knowledge.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3899cb8e3ba2.htm (8249 words)

	Amazon.com: The New Science of Politics (Walgreen Foundation Lectures): Books: Eric Voegelin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Eric Voegelin was one of the most learned scholars of the 20th century.
		Eric Voegelin, who died in 1985, is one of the giants of intellectual history and political philosophy.
		Voegelin persistently and completely misread Nietzsche, taking him to be an enemy of reality, when in fact Nietzsche rejected so mush of the Western tradition because he found in it a nihilist hatred for reality and existence that Voegelin also opposes.
	www.amazon.com /Science-Politics-Walgreen-Foundation-Lectures/dp/0226861147 (2519 words)

	Amazon.com: Science, Politics, And Gnosticism: Books: Eric Voegelin,Ellis Sandoz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Although Voegelin indulges in almost pure abstraction (characterisitic of his German education) it is quite accurate since it exposes the naked truth a la Jack Kerouac of these ideas.
		Voegelin contends that certain modern movements, including positivism, Hegelianism, Marxism, and the "God is dead" school are variants of the gnostic tradition.
		Eric Voegelin was one of the most profound philosophers of history of the twentieth century.
	www.amazon.com /Science-Politics-Gnosticism-Eric-Voegelin/dp/1932236481 (1931 words)

	Eric-Voegelin-Archiv München: Links
		Upon withdrawal of his teaching permit and in view of his impending arrest, Voegelin fled in the summer of 1938: first to Switzerland and then to the United States, where he was active at a series of American universities.
		This is indicated by the activities of the Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies, founded in March 1987 at Louisiana State University.
		In Italy, a number of Voegelin's works have been translated and the universities of Salerno, Padua, Bologna and Florence are significant sites of engagement with his work.
	www.lrz-muenchen.de /~voegelin-archiv/alte_website/links.htm (670 words)

	Amazon.fr : Eric Voegelin: In Quest of Reality: Livres en anglais: Thomas Heilke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		During his distinguished academic career, Eric Voegelin was described as the most important philosopher of history and consciousness since Toynbee; a political theorist of exceptional scope and erudition; a theologian with profound insights into the nature of religious experience.
		Regardless of such efforts to characterize his writings using such neat categories, Voegelin has been celebrated by intellectuals of all stripes for the fresh new light he has cast on the modern predicament.
		With startling new insights into the theoretical foundations of Voegelin's writings, Heilke's gripping analysis and compelling conclusions demonstrate how his subject was primarily a philosopher in quest of reality, and why no ideological category can grasp the core of such an intellectual journey.
	www.amazon.fr /Eric-Voegelin-Reality-Thomas-Heilke/dp/0847694283 (344 words)

	No. 23 - Eric Voegelin: Science, Politics, and Gnosticism
		Voegelin shows Joachim's influence on More's "Utopia" (who omits any such thing as Original Sin), Hobbes' "Leviathan" (who omits any such idea as the "summum bonum") and Hegel's historiography in which historical direction is a certainty, and God's Will is moot if it exists at all.
		"Voegelin may be compared to a master quarterback, who, having marched his team triumphantly down the field, fumbles the ball away with first and goal to go from the one.
		Voegelin was clearly influenced by the radical branch of utheranism
	intellectualconservative.com /article2810.html (1852 words)

	Table of contents for Eric Voegelin's dialogue with the postmoderns
		Table of contents for Eric Voegelin's dialogue with the postmoderns : searching for foundations / edited with an introduction by Peter A. Petrakis and Cecil L. Eubanks.
		Voegelin and Levinas on the "Foundations" of Ethics and Politics: Transcendence and Immanence Revisited @@@ William P. Simmons 5.
		Voegelin, Eric, 1901- -- Contributions in political science.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip0422/2004020162.html (209 words)

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