Eric Voegelin
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Key facts
- Born
- Erich Hermann Wilhelm Vögelin , ( 1901-01-03 ) January 3, 1901, Cologne , Kingdom of Prussia , German Empire
- Died
- January 19, 1985 (1985-01-19) (aged 84), Stanford, California , U.S.
- Alma mater
- University of Vienna
- Doctoral advisor
- Hans Kelsen
- Era
- 20th-century philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Perennial philosophy
- Main interests
- Consciousness existence history political science spirituality Anamnesis (philosophy)
- Notable ideas
- Metaxy as the permanent place where man is in-between two poles of existence Criticism of Gnosticism " Don't immanentize the eschaton "
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Eric
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Cologne
- Place of death
- Palo Alto
- Occupation
- historian
- Educated at
- University of Vienna
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Work location
- Munich
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- date of birth
- 1901-01-03
- date of death
- 1985-01-19
- name in native language
- Erich Vögelin
- birth name
- Erich Hermann Wilhelm Vögelin
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Encyclopedic overview
Eric Voegelin (born Erich Hermann Wilhelm Vögelin, German: [ˈføːgəliːn]; January 3, 1901 – January 19, 1985) was a German-American political philosopher. He was born in Cologne, and educated in political science at the University of Vienna, where he became an associate professor of political science in the law faculty. In 1938, he and his wife fled from the Nazi forces which had entered Vienna. They emigrated to the United States, where they became citizens in 1944. He spent most of his academic career at Louisiana State University, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.
Early life
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