Eric Voegelin Archive

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The Eric Voegelin Archive , founded in 1990 , is a research facility of the Geschwister Scholl Institute for Political Science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . The director is the emeritus professor of the GSI Peter J. Opitz .

Field of activity

The Eric Voegelin Archive is intensively dedicated to Voegelin research and the publication of many of Voegelin's writings, which until then were only available in English.

The so-called Occasional Papers, which contain small works by Voegelin and at the same time serve as a multilingual forum for international discussions about his work, have been published since 1996.

The archive operates a comprehensive library that has microfilm reproductions of his estate archived at Stanford, his Munich lectures, translations of his work into various languages ​​and international Voegelin literature. Specialist conferences and individual lectures are held. In addition, in the tradition of Voegelin, the archive is dedicated to researching the relationship between politics and religion (s), especially against the background of current challenges posed by globalization. It maintains numerous contacts in various countries through the Eric Voegelin Society for Politics, Culture and Religion.

Eric Voegelin's private library is located at the neighboring Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg .

Publications

Voegelin's writings

  • with A. Schütz, L. Strauss, A. Gurwitsch: Correspondence on "The New Science of Politics". Edited by Peter J. Opitz, Freiburg i. B./Munich 1993.
  • The political religions. Edited and with an afterword by Peter J. Opitz, Munich 1993. 2nd edition 1996.
  • Autobiographical reflections. Ed., Introduced and with a bibliography of the writings of Eric Voegelin by Peter J. Opitz. Munich 1994.
  • The people of God. Cult movements and the spirit of modernity. Ed., Introduced and with an essay by Peter J. Opitz. Translated by Heike Kaltschmidt. Munich 1994.
  • "The playful cruelty of the humanists". Studies on Niccolò Machiavelli and Thomas More. Translated and with a foreword by Dietmar Herz, afterword by Peter J. Opitz. Munich 1995.
  • The greatness of Max Weber. Edited and with an afterword by Peter J. Opitz. Munich 1995.
  • Gospel and culture. The Gospel as an Answer. With a foreword by Wolfhart Pannenberg. Translated and with an afterword by Helmut Winterholler. Munich 1997.
  • The murder of God. On the history and shape of modern political gnosis. Edited and introduced by Peter J. Opitz, with an afterword by Thomas Hollweck. Munich 1999.
  • Order and history. Edited by Peter J. Opitz and Dietmar Herz.
    • Volume 1: The Cosmological Realms of the Ancient Orient - Mesopotamia and Egypt. Edited by Jan Assmann. Translated by Reinhard Sonnenschmidt, Munich 2002.
    • Volume 2: Israel and Revelation - The Birth of History. Edited by Friedhelm Hartenstein and Jörg Jeremias. Translated by Uta Uchegbu, Friedhelm Hartenstein and Nils Winkler. Munich 2005.
    • Volume 3: Israel and the Revelation - Moses and the Prophets. Edited by Friedhelm Hartenstein and Jörg Jeremias. Translated by Uta Uchegbu and Nils Winkler. Munich 2005.
    • Volume 4: The World of the Polis - Society, Myth and History. Edited by Jürgen Gebhardt. Translated by Lars Hochreuther and Heide Lipecky . Munich 2002.
    • Volume 5: The world of the polis - From myth to philosophy. Edited by Jürgen Gebhardt. Translated by Dora Fischer-Barnicol and Gabriele von Sivers. Munich 2003.
    • Volume 6: Plato. Edited by Dietmar Herz. Translated by Veronika Weinberger. Munich 2002.
    • Volume 7: Aristotle. Edited by Peter J. Opitz. Translated by Helmut Winterholler. Munich 2001.
    • Volume 8: The Ecumenical Age - The Legitimacy of Antiquity. Edited by Thomas Hollweck. Translated by Wibke Reger. Munich 2004.
    • Volume 9: The Ecumenical Age - World Domination and Philosophy. Edited by Manfred Henningsen. Translated by Jörg Fündling and Veronika Weinberger. Munich 2004.
    • Volume 10: In Search of Order. Edited by Paul Caringella and Gilbert Weiss. Translated by Helmut Winterholler. Munich 2004.
  • Jean Bodin. Edited and with an afterword by Peter J. Opitz. Translated by Dora Fischer-Barnicol and Gabriele von Sivers. Munich 2003.
  • Giambattista Vico - La Scienza Nuova. Ed. And with a foreword by Peter J. Opitz, with an afterword by Stephan Otto. Translated by Nils Winkler and Anna E. Frazier. Munich 2003.
  • The New Science of Politics. Edited and with an afterword by Peter J. Opitz. Munich 2004.
  • Anamnesis. On the theory of history and politics. With an afterword by Peter J. Opitz. Freiburg i. B./Munich 2005.
  • Mystery, Myth and Magic. Awareness-philosophical meditations. Edited by Peter J. Opitz. Vienna 2006.
  • Hitler and the Germans. Edited by Manfred Henningsen. Munich 2006.

Research literature

  • G. Weiss: Theory, Relevance and Truth. A reconstruction of the correspondence between Eric Voegelin and Alfred Schütz (1938-59). Munich 2000.
  • G. Price: Eric Voegelin: International Bibliography, 1921-2000. With a foreword by Peter J. Opitz. Munich 2001.
  • T. Marsen: Between "reeducation" and political philosophy. The development of political science in Munich after 1945. Munich 2001.
  • C. Schwaabe: Freedom and Reason in the Unreconciled Modernity. Max Weber's critical decisionism as a challenge to political liberalism. Munich 2001.
  • M. Ley, H. Neisser, G. Weiss (Eds.): Political Religion? Politics, religion and anthropology in the work of Eric Voegelin. Munich 2003.
  • M. Puhl: Eric Voegelin in Baton Rouge. Munich 2005.
  • M. Ley, G. Weiss: Voegelin in Vienna. Early writings 1920-1938. Vienna 2007.
  • Peter J. Opitz: Faith and Knowledge. The correspondence between Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss from 1934 to 1964. Fink, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-77054967-2 .

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