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I. Вотъ его киклопическая совѣтская форма: блестящій, мірового значенія совѣтскій византинистъ Александръ Кажданъ вынужденъ былъ переѣхать въ США, гдѣ онъ и работалъ до конца жизни кѣмъ-то въ родѣ старшаго научнаго сотрудника въ Dumbarton Oaks и…
Eric Voegelin on uncertainty
In the three cases of More, Hobbes, and Hegel, we can establish that the thinker suppresses an essential element of reality in order to be able to construct an image of man, or society, or…
Eric Voegelin on the six characteristics of the gnostic attitude
More important for our purposes than definitions and questions of genesis are the features by which we can recognize gnostic movements as such. Let us list, therefore, the six characteristics that, taken together, reveal the…
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Eric Voegelin on Comteian positivism
A brief outline of Comteian positivism may serve as a representative example of how mass and intellectual movements are connected. Positivism was an intellectual movement that began with Saint-Simon, with Comte and his friends, and…
Eric Voegelin on Phänomenologie des Geistes as a “masterpiece of rigorous magical speculation”
The nature of the order of being as it is given, together with man’s place in it, is obliterated: the being of world and ego is restricted to the knowledge of the immediate or existent;…
Eric Voegelin on symbolical deicide
The underlying significance of the Diogenes symbolism [in Nietzsche’s aphorism 125 from Die fröhliche Wissenschaft] is now clear. The new Diogenes does seek God, but not the God who is dead: he seeks the new…
Eric Voegelin on Marx & the golem legend
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Eric Voegelin on Hegel as a gnostic
The result of such transitions — which are in fact leaps — is that the meanings of words are changed. The gnostic program that Hegel successfully carries out retains for itself the name “philosophy,” and…
Eric Voegelin on Marx & gnosis
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