Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2009
Love of a friend and gratitude for the benefactions of a teacher have moved Paul Caringella, Juergen Gebhardt, Thomas A. Hollweck, and Ellis Sandoz to shoulder the gigantic task of publishing all of the major writings of Eric Voegelin in a uniform edition.1 Louisiana State University Press, Voegelin's publisher of choice since 1956, has committed itself to bringing out thirty-four volumes in which his works will be grouped in formal categories, and arranged in roughly chronological order within each classification.
1. The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin. 34 volumes planned. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. Issued to date: Volume 12, Published Essays: 1966–1985, ed. Sandoz, Ellis (1990)Google Scholar; Volume 28, What Is History? and Other Late Unpublished Writings, ed. Hollweck, Thomas A. and Caringella, Paul (1990)Google Scholar; Volume 27, The Nature of the Law and Related Legal Writings, ed. Pascal, Robert Anthony, Babin, Jam Lee, and Corrington, John William (1991).Google Scholar
2. Autobiographical Reflections (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1989), p. 78.Google Scholar
3. From Enlightenment to Revolution (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1975), p. ix.Google Scholar
4. Autobiographical Reflections, p. 12.
5. References to the Collected Works will be in Arabic numerals, and will read volume-colon-pages, e.g., 12: 231–32.
6. Autobiographical Reflections, pp. 12, 78, 62.
7. Autobiographical Reflections, pp. 62, 78,80.
8. Order and History, vol. 1, Israel and Revelation (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1956), p. ix.Google Scholar
9. The New Science of Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952), p. 164.Google Scholar
10. Order and History, vol. 4, Ecumenic Age (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1974), p. 7.Google Scholar
11. Ecumenic Age, p. 2.
12. Ibid., pp. 7,57; 12: 371.
13. Autobiographical Reflections, p. 75.
14. Cf. New Science, p. 63.
15. Ecumenic Age, p. 243.
16. New Science, p. 78.
17. Ibid., p. 1.
18. Anamnesis, trans. Niemeyer, Gerhart (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1978), p. 116.Google Scholar
19. Autobiographical Reflections, p. 102.
20. Anastaplo, , “On How Eric Voegelin Has Read Plato and Aristotle,” Independent journal of Philosophy vol. 5/6.Google Scholar
21. Ibid., p. 85.
22. Ibid., p. 86.
23. Ibid., pp. 86–88.
24. Strauss, Leo, Natural Right and History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950), pp. 12, 26–27.Google Scholar
25. Anastaplo, , “Eric Voegelin” pp. 87, 91.Google Scholar
26. Ibid., p. 87.
27. Ibid., p. 86
28. Ibid., p. 87.
29. Ibid., pp. 86–87.
30. Ibid., p. 90.
31. Ibid., p. 87.
32. Ibid., p. 89.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid., pp. 85, 88.
35. New Science, p. 78.
36. Israel and Revelation, pp. 124,129.
37. Ecumenic Age, p. 6.
38. Ibid., p. 243.
39. Autobiographical Reflections, p. 102.
40. Cf. Plato and Aristotle, p. 96.
41. Ecumenic Age, p. 236.
42. Plato and Aristotle, p. 92.
43. See Ecumenic Age, pp. 61, 75, 217–18; and 12: 115–33.
44. New Science, pp. 2–3.
45. Ecumenic Age, p. 6.
46. Plato and Aristotle, 119–21; 317 is not prescriptive.
47. Ibid., pp. 335–36.
48. Cf. New Science, pp. 171–72; Plato and Aristotle, 159–62; and the essay on “The Use of Force” in 27: 61–64).Google Scholar
49. Plato and Aristotle, p. 135.
50. On Voegelin's response to the Inquisition and such like, one might take a look at From Enlightenment to Revolution, pp. 33–34.
51. Israel and Revelation, p. 2.
52. Ecumenic Age, p. 73.