In Search of Order brings to a conclusion Eric Voegelin's masterwork, Order and History. 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 volume[...]

By the time Eric Voegelin fled Hitler's regime and made his way to the United States in 1938, he had already written four books criticizing Nazi racism, establishing what would be the focus of his life's work: to account for the endemic political violence of the twentieth century. One of the most or[...]

Few political philosophers of the twentieth century can lay claim to as much original brilliance as can Eric Voegelin (1901-1985), the Austrian-born philosopher who after fleeing the Nazis taught for most of his career at Louisiana State University. In this introduction to Voegelin's thought, [...]

Trotz seines atheistischen Selbstverstandnisses trug der Marxismus-Leninismus in der DDR offenkundige Zuge einer Religion. Hat sich die Sakralisierung der Politik zu einer politischen Religion verfestigt? In ihrer qualitativ-hermeneutischen Studie beantwortet Ulrike Madest diese Frage anhand der Kon[...]