Eric Voegelin Today

Scott Robinson is assistant professor of political science at Houston Baptist University.Lee Trepanier is professor of political science at Saginaw Valley State University.David Whitney is associate professor of political science at Nicholls State University

In what is a book of very different essays that address the political corruptions of our era (for example, liberalism) – unexpected topics that heighten a reader’s anticipation of what “what will be the subject of the next essay?” – the authors not only have clarified and adopted Voegelin’s creative symbolism, they have demonstrated their use. The authors exemplify for the reader an instructive employment of creatively new tools of analysis provided in Voegelin’s symbolisms that can work to interpretatively critique political communities in the 21st Century.

• Chapter 1: Rethinking Eric Voegelin’s Interpretation of Liberalism and Its HistoryDavid D. CoreyChapter 2: The Necessity of Moral Communication in a Pluralistic Political EnvironmentScott RobinsonChapter 3: Defenders of Democracy: Freedom and Responsibility in America TodayScott RobinsonChapter 4: The Origins of Scientism: RevisitedDavid N. WhitneyChapter 5: Voegelin, Rawls, and the Persistence of Liberal Civil TheologyGrant HaversChapter 6: The Comparative Politics of Eric VoegelinLee TrepanierChapter 7: The Dream of the Caliphate and the Loss of Reality: An Application of Eric Voegelin’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism” and “In Search of the Ground”Scott Philip SegrestChapter 8: “The Five Ways of World-Empire”Christopher S. MorrisseyChapter 9: Eric Voegelin’s 1944 “Political Theory and the Pattern of General History”: An Account from the Biography of a Philosophizing ConsciousnessNathan Harter