Companion Literature for the Study of Eric Voegelin
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Emberley, Peter, and Barry Cooper (editors)

Faith and Political Philosophy: The Correspondence Between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin, 1934-1964

Federici, Michael P.

Eric Voegelin: The Restoration of Order

Franz, Michael

Eric Voegelin and the Politics of Spiritual Revolt: The Roots of Modern Ideology

Havard, William C.

The Recovery of Political Theory

Heilke, Thomas W.

Voegelin on the Idea of Race: An Analysis of Modern European Racism

Hughes, Glenn (editor)

The Politics of the Soul: Eric Voegelin on Religious Experience

Keulman, Kenneth

The Balance of Consciousness: Eric Voegelin's Political Theory

Lawrence, Fred (editor)

The Beginning and the Beyond: Papers from the Gadamer and Voegelin Conferences

McAllister, Ted V.

Revolt Against Modernity: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Search for a Postliberal Order

Sandoz, Ellis

The Voegelinian Revolution

The Politics of Truth and Other Untimely Essays

Sandoz, Ellis (editor)

Eric Voegelin's Thought: A Critical Appraisal

Eric Voegelin's Significance for the Modern Mind

Wagner, Helmut R.

Alfred Schutz: An Intellectual Biography

Walsh, David

After Ideology: Recovering the Spiritual Foundations of Freedom

Webb, Eugene

Eric Voegelin: Philosopher of History

Emberley, Peter, and Barry Cooper (editors), Faith and Political Philosophy: The Correspondence Between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin, 1934-1964, Pennsylvania State University Press 1993.

There is a review of this book in the "Voegelin Research News", Volume I, No. 3, April 1995.

Fifty-two letters between Voegelin and Strauss

Letter from Voegelin to Alfred Schütz on Edmund Husserl (1943)

Voegelin's Review of Strauss's On Tyranny

Strauss's Response to Voegelin's Review

Leo Strauss

Jerusalem and Athens: Some Preliminary Reflections

Eric Voegelin

Gospel and Culture

Eric Voegelin

Immortality: Experience and Symbol

Leo Strauss

The Mutual Influence of Theology and Philosophy

James L. Wiser

Reason and Revelation as Search and Response: A Comparison of Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Philosophizing in Opposition: Strauss and Voegelin on Communication and Science

Stanley Rosen

Politics or Transcendence: Responding to Historicism

Thomas J. J. Altizer

The Theological Conflict Between Strauss and Voegelin

Timothy Fuller

Philosophy, Faith, and the Question of Progress

Ellis Sandoz

Medieval Rationalism or Mystic Philosophy? Reflections on the Strauss-Voegelin Correspondence

Thomas L. Pangle

Platonic Political Science in Strauss and Voegelin

David Walsh

The Reason-Revelation Tension in Strauss and Voegelin

Federici, Michael P., Eric Voegelin: The Restoration of Order, ISI Books 2002.

Franz, Michael, Eric Voegelin and the Politics of Spiritual Revolt: The Roots of Modern Ideology, Louisisana State University Press 1992.

Havard, William C., The Recovery of Political Theory, Louisisana State University Press 1984.

The Disenchantment of the Intellectuals

The Method and Results of Political Anthropology in America

The Philosophical Underpinnings of the Contemporary Controversy in American Political Science

The New Lexicon of Politics; or, How to Engage in Research Without Really Thinking

A New Rousseau

Voegelin's Changing Conception of History and Consciousness

Notes on Voegelin's Contribution to Political Theory

Michael Oakeshott, Skeptical Idealist

The Politics of I'll Take My Stand

Political Education: Who Gets What, When, How, and Why

Policy Sciences, the Humanities, and Political Coherence

Heilke, Thomas W., Voegelin on the Idea of Race: An Analysis of Modern European Racism, Louisisana State University Press 1990.

Hughes, Glenn (editor), The Politics of the Soul: Eric Voegelin on Religious Experience, Rowman & Littlefield 1999.

Michael P. Morrissey

Voegelin, Religious Experience, and Immortality

John J. Ranieri

Grounding Public Discourse: The Contribution of Eric Voegelin

Geoffrey L. Price

The Epiphany of Universal Humanity

William Petropulos

The Person as Imago Dei: Augustine and Max Scheler in Eric Voegelin's Herrschaftslehre and Political Religions

William M. Thompson

Philosophy and Meditation: Notes on Eric Voegelin's View

Michael Franz

Brothers Under the Skin: Voegelin on the Common Experiential Wellsprings of Spiritual Order and Disorder

Glenn Hughes

Balanced and Imbalanced Consciousness

Stephen A. McKnight

Voegelin's Challenge to Modernity's Claim to Be Scientific and Secular: The Ancient Theology and the the Dream of Innerworldly Fulfillment

Keulman, Kenneth The Balance of Consciousness: Eric Voegelin's Political Theory

Lawrence, Fred (editor), The Beginning and the Beyond: Papers from the Gadamer and Voegelin Conferences, Supplementary Issue of Lonergan Workshop Volume 4, Scholars Press 1984.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Articulating Transcendence

Frederick Lawrence

Language as Horizon?

Eric Voegelin

Consciousness and Order: Foreward to "Anamnesis"

The Meditative Origin of the Philosophical Origin of Order

Frederick Lawrence

On "The Meditative Origin of the Philosophical Origin of Order "

Robert M. Doran

Theology's Situation: Questions to Eric Voegelin

Patrick H. Byrne

The Significance of Voegelin's Work for the Philosophy of Science

Eric Voegelin

Responses at the Panel Discussion of "The Beginning of the Beginning"

Autobiographical Statement at Age Eighty-Two

McAllister, Ted V., Revolt Against Modernity: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Search for a Postliberal Order, University Press of Kansas 1995.

Sandoz, Ellis The Voegelinian Revolution: A Biographical Introduction, second edition, Transaction Publishers 2000.

Sandoz, Ellis The Politics of Truth and Other Untimely Essays, University of Missouri Press 1999.

Sandoz, Ellis (editor), Eric Voegelin's Thought: A Critical Appraisal, Duke University Press 1982.

Ellis Sandoz

Introduction

Gregor Sebba

Prelude and Variations on the Theme of Eric Voegelin

Jürgen Gebhardt

Toward the Process of Universal Mankind: The Formation of Voegelin's Philosophy of History

William C. Havard, Jr

Notes on Voegelin's Contribution to Political Theory

Dante Germino

Eric Voegelin's Framework for Political Evaluation in His Recently Published Work

David J. Walsh

Philosophy in Voegelin's Work

Eugene Webb

Eric Voegelin's Theory of Revelation

Thomas J. J. Altizer

A New History and a New But Ancient God? Voegelin's The Ecumenic Age

Eric Voegelin

Response to Professor Altizer's "A New History and a New But Ancient God?"

Eric Voegelin

Epilogue

Sandoz, Ellis (editor), Eric Voegelin's Significance for the Modern Mind, Louisisana State University Press 1991.

Ellis Sandoz

Introduction

Kenneth W. Thompson

Voegelin and Politics

Stephen A. McKnight

Voegelin's New Science of History

Lewis P. Simpson

Voegelin and the Story of the Clerks

Paul Grimley Kuntz

Voegelin's Experiences of Disorder Out of Order and Vision of Order Out of Disorder: A Philosophic Meditation on His Theory of Order-Disorder

Paul Caringella

Voegelin: Philosopher of Divine Presence

Wagner, Helmut R., Alfred Schutz: An Intellectual Biography, University of Chicago Press 1983.

There is a chapter on Voegelin in this biography of his long-time friend and correspondent. (I've also seen his name spelled Schütz and Schuetz).

Walsh, David, After Ideology: Recovering the Spiritual Foundations of Freedom, Harper Collins 1990.

Webb, Eugene, Eric Voegelin: Philosopher of History, University of Washington Press 1981.

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