Eric Voegelin: 4 books

Science, Politics and Gnosticism comprises two essays by Eric Voegelin (1901-85), arguably one of the most provocative and influential political philosophers of the last century. In these essays, Voegelin contends that certain modern movements, including positivism, Hegelianism, Marxism, and the "God...

"Thirty-five years ago few could have predicted that The New Science of Politics would be a best-seller by political theory standards. Compressed within the Draconian economy of the six Walgreen lectures is a complete theory of man, society, and history, presented at the most profound and intellectual...

Philosopher C.S. Morrissey adapts Hesiod’s two great works, Theogony and Works and Days, taking into account the poet’s essential meditative insights that paved the way for the subsequent achievements of Greek philosophy,most notably of Plato, and thereby gave a distinctive shape to all of Western...

D’un bout à l’autre de la planète, des hauts fourneaux surgissent, le pétrole jaillit du sol, les ouvriers s’entassent dans les usines. A travers les cinq continents, les mêmes mots sont employés, les mêmes valeurs proclamées, les mêmes buts visés. Un type de société, la société...