Eric Voegelin

Science, Politics and Gnosticism

Critique of totalitarian ideology and gnostic thinking in modern political movements

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Eric Voegelin
Eric Voegelin

German-American political philosopher who diagnosed modernity's political disasters as expressions of Gnosticism—the attempt to immanentize the eschaton. Order and History is his massive, unfinished examination of the history of political thought. He is a central figure of American conservative political philosophy.

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