Eric Voegelin Study Page

As a layman with a stack of books which I find rather challenging, I have assembled these resources as an aid to my reading of Eric Voegelin. I hope others in a similar situation will find them helpful.

The outlines are intended as an aid to the memory for those who are reading Voegelin, not as a substitute for the original material. It is impossible to summarize another man's words entirely accurately. I hope I have not done too much violence to his works, but readers should refer to the original sources for Voegelin's true thought.

Your comments and corrections are always welcome: please e-mail Bill McClain.

Resources

• Outlines
  • Autobiographical Reflections
  • Science, Politics and Gnosticism
  • The New Science of Politics [ pdf ]
  • Anamnesis
  • Order and History
    • 1. Israel and Revelation [in progress]
    • 2. The World of the Polis [in progress]
  • The Nature of the Law
  • Essays
    • "On Classical Studies"
    • "On Debate and Existence"
    • "Immortality: Experience and Symbol"
• Dictionary of Voegelinian Terminology
• Short Glossary
• Index of Names
• Companion Literature
• Online Texts
  • Eric Voegelin Remembered
  • Papers from the "2000 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting"
  • List of Eric Voegelin Society Papers
• Articles
  • Advice for those who want to read Eric Voegelin
  • Questions about Eric Voegelin
  • The matrix from "Reason: The Classic Experience"

Download these pages

For the convenience of those who would like to have offline copies of the pages shown above, they are available packaged together as a zip file. Please do not put copies elsewhere on the web, as they will go out of date. Link to the main page instead: http://watershade.net/ev/.

E-mail update notices

If you would like to be notified of changes and additions to these pages, just e-mail me and I will add you to a notification list. Updates will be rather infrequent.

Related Links

• The Eric Voegelin Institute has research links.
• The University of Missouri Press is producing The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, which will contain 34 volumes when done.
• Back issues of Voegelin--Research News are available online.
• A German language site: Eric Voegelin Archiv, Geschwister-Scholl-Institut, Universität München. There are (or will be) order forms for Eric Voegelin: International Bibliography, 1921-2000 at this site.
• Blackstone Audiobooks has recorded versions of Autobiographical Reflections and Science, Politics and Gnosticism for sale and rent.
• Frederick Wagner has an Eric Voegelin Page.
• The Hoover Institute has a Register of the Eric Voegelin Papers, 1907-1997 cataloging materials in their archives.
• There is an evforum mailing list for discussion and communications.

Change History

27-Feb-2001	Added The Nature of the Law
14-Feb-2001	Added List of Eric Voegelin Society Papers
19-Dec-2000	Added The matrix from "Reason: The Classic Experience"
21-Nov-2000	Added Papers from the "2000 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting"
31-Oct-2000	Added Eric Voegelin Remembered
7-Jul-2000	Added "Immortality: Experience and Symbol".
15-Jun-2000	Added Dictionary of Voegelinian Terminology.
16-May-2000	Added Israel and Revelation.
25-Feb-2000	Added "On Debate and Existence".
19-Feb-2000	Added Anamnesis.
6-Sep-1998	Added "On Classical Studies".
5-Sep-1998	New documents.