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Article: The anti-Gnostic.('Eric Voegelin: The Restoration of Order')(Book Review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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ERIC VOEGELIN: THE RESTORATION OF ORDER. By MICHAEL P. FEDERICI. ISI. 250 pp. $24.95.
FIRST, THE BASICS: born in Germany in 1901, Eric Voegelin received a doctorate in political science from the University of Vienna, carried on several years of postdoctoral study in England, America, and France, and then took up an academic career in Austria. He drew the hostility of the Nazis with two early works on race, and in 1938 he fled to America, where he taught for many years, mainly at Louisiana State University. He ended his professional career at the Hoover Institution and died in 1985.
Voegelin wrote voluminously and is known today for two works in ...