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VOEGELINVIEW is the online arts and humanities journal of the Eric Voegelin Society. We publish essays, reviews, interviews, poems, and occasional works of creative fiction dealing with the great questions of the human condition and experience, the humanities as a source of wisdom, and, of course, the life and thought of Eric Voegelin. We exist as a journal of cultural and intellectual criticism, education, and humanistic renewal with a commitment to the politics of liberty, self-governance, free speech and free expression, freedom of religion, and democratic renewal. In the words of the Eric Voegelin Society, our mission is to be “an educational organization devoted to the revitalization of teaching and understanding of Eric Voegelin’s work and fundamental expressions of human civilization in art, literature, science, and politics.” Source
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Creative & Poetry But this, though lost to the sight, was retained in the memory – St. Augustine, The Confessions I headed down that path as if would lead me back, Having half a notion mere motion, only a single visit, Could open me, or my memory, to vistas of the past That had (but in fact?) passed so fast under some bridge.
The Eclipse of Moral Agency
The Manicheans are a religious group that is largely unknown to us today. There are no Manichean churches or congregations that survive. Universities devote no attention to Manichean studies. If they are mentioned at all, it is in the context of the forgotten and esoteric religions that once dominated antiquity.
Only Sing! - VoegelinView
In his review of John Berryman’s 1965 Pulitzer Prize winning 77 Dream Songs, John Malcolm Brinnin said, “Strictly in terms of technique, the book is a knockout.
C.S. Lewis, the Battle for Man, and the End of the World
What has happened to man? In a relatively short period of time, it seems civilization has moved quickly from a traditional and religious view of God, man, and nature, to a replacement of traditional truths with progressive “humanist” principles, then to atheism and relativism, and finally to an insane and satanic attempt to dominate the world through an odd mixture of nihilism, wokeism, and raw exertion of power. Who could have seen such a fast acceleration from normalcy into chaos?
Shifting of the Seasons
Vernal life spurts forth with foliage verdant-white Fragile leaflets fresh from earthen womb leap toward sunlight The grasses get some color back in their cheeks Avians return, spilling liquid song from their beaks. Compact ferns extend and begin to unfurl Crocuses crowning the ground bloom and twirl Following their phototropic inclination While the season is doused in precipitation.
What We're Reading - VoegelinView
Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun. World War I, insofar that it is remembered by Americans, is remembered as the first world war America won. The Great War which ravaged Europe doesn’t have the same hold onto our social imaginary as World War II does, and for good reason—we entered in 1917, didn’t really do any serious fighting until the final six months of the war, and our country was unscathed in the fighting.
The True Knight: Arthurian Romance in the Shadow of Dante’s Divine Comedy
The knight puts on his armor and readies to mount his steed. He has heard of a faraway land that is tyrannized by a dark evil and he is preparing to venture off into a new world to battle the darkness and rescue the princess. He will fight for a just cause, show mercy to others, and treat ladies kindly on this adventure and eventually win the princess in love or marriage. These are basic motifs that dominate Arthurian Romance.
A Dreamy Sort of Fatherland
When Bedrich Smetana composed his symphonic poem Ma Vlast (“My Fatherland”) in 1874, he was tapping into a long lineage of nationalist works stemming back to the early Romantic era. Franz Liszt pioneered the form with his celebrated Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe, but he was soon joined by Smetana, Dvorak (Slavonic Dances), Richard Strauss (Symphonia Domestica, Alpine Symphony), and others.
Last Selfie Before Euthanasia
I was recently leafing through one of the Dutch daily newspapers.. On the third page, almost half a column long, there was an article—a report from a clinic that performs euthanasia and an interview with one of the doctors performing it. Next to the article’s content was a rather large photo of a patient about to undergo euthanasia. The patient was sitting in bed, surrounded by family members. Everyone was looking directly at the camera, their faces were rather expressionless.
A Field Trip - VoegelinView
They wandered about the exhibit of the emperor long dead, though, no august history would inhibit boyish thoughts swirling in their heads. So, the whispers and the nudges, the furtive grins creasing their faces; what seriousness could be encouraged as they passed the Three Graces? So, from there to something closer to home, hopefully to make a fresh start, in a less fleshy hall to roam I led them to the hall Early American art. No luck. There was the sculpted figure, semi-nude.