Eric Voegelin
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Eric Voegelin (3 January 1901 – 19 January 1985) was an author whose body of work includes 113 titles. Among his top works are *Religionsersatz*, *Ordnung und Geschichte*, *Isle de Bréhat*, *Ueber die form des amerikanischen geistes*, and *Symbol- und Ordnungsformen im Zivilisationsvergleich*. Crossref records five of his works.
Voegelin’s writings have been referenced by 1,518 other encyclopedia articles. He is associated with the quotes, “The death of the spirit is the price of progress.” and “The order of history is the history of order.”
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 3 January 1901
- Died
- 19 January 1985
- Works
- 113
Top works
- Religionsersatz
- Ordnung und Geschichte
- Isle de Bréhat
- Ueber die form des amerikanischen geistes
- Symbol- und Ordnungsformen im Zivilisationsvergleich
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 22
- Total plays
- 55
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 48,837x
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 44,323x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,494x
- The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 26,077x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,441x
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Quotes
- “The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.”
- “The death of the spirit is the price of progress.”
- “Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the Gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one.”
- “Christ is the head of the corpus mysticum, which includes all men from the beginning of the world to its end. He is not the president of a special-interest club.”
- “'The order of history is the history of order.'”
- “One can hardly engage in a serious study of medieval Christianity without discovering among its ‘values’ the belief in a rational science of human and social order and especially of natural law. Moreover, this science was not simply a belief, but it was actually elaborated as a work of reason.”
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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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