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Eric Voegelin

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Born: January 02 1901

Died: 1818 01 19851985

German-born American political philosopher. He taught political theory and sociology at the University of Vienna after his habilitation there in 1928. While in Austria Voegelin established the beginnings of his long lasting friendship with F. A. Hayek. In 1933 he published two books criticizing Nazi racism, and was forced to flee from Austria following the Anschluss in 1938. After a brief stay in Switzerland, he arrived in the United States and taught at a series of universities before joining Louisiana State University's Department of Government in 1942. His advisers on his dissertation were Hans Kelsen and Othmar Spann.

Voegelin remained in Baton Rouge until 1958 when he accepted an offer by Munich's Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität to fill Max Weber's former chair in political science, which had been empty since Weber's death in 1920. In Munich he founded the Institut für Politische Wissenschaft. Voegelin returned to America in 1969 to join Stanford University's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace as Henry Salvatori Fellow where he continued his work until his death on January 19, 1985. He was a member of the Philadelphia Society.

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Eric Voegelin

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Books from Eric Voegelin

Science, Politics, and Gnosticism

Autobiographical Reflections (CW34): Revised Edition, with a Voegelin Glossary and Cumulative Index

Modernity without Restraint: Political Religions; The New Science of Politics; and Science, Politics and Gnosticism

Order and History, Vol. I: Israel and Revelation

Plato and Aristotle

Anamnesis: On the Theory of History and Politics

Hitler and the Germans

The World of the Polis

History of Political Ideas, Volume 1: Hellenism, Rome, and Early Christianity

Die politischen Religionen

Order and History, Volume 5 (CW18): In Search of Order

Race and State

The History of the Race Idea: From Ray to Carus

On the Form of the American Mind

The Authoritarian State: An Essay on the Problem of the Austrian State

The Drama of Humanity and Other Miscellaneous Papers, 1939-1985

Eric Voegelin's Dialogue with the Postmoderns: Searching for Foundations

Selected Correspondence, 1924-1949

Selected Book Reviews

Robert B. Heilman and Eric Voegelin: A Friendship in Letters, 1944-1984