https://www.the-american-interest.com/2014/12/10/the-voegelin-enigma/
The American Interest
Eric Voegelin smashed every category, scrambled every dichotomy, and spurned every orthodoxy he encountered to discover what ailed modern Western society.
Order and History (Vol. 5): In Search of Order
(Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Vol. 18)
University of Missouri Press, 2000, 160 pp., $40
Erich Hermann Wilhelm Vögelin was born in Cologne, Germany in January 1901, just as Western civilization was about to tear itself apart. He grew up in Vienna, the child of rather typical Protestant parents, and joined the Law Faculty at the University of Vienna before becoming a dedicated political science professor there. Because of his vocal opposition to the Nazis he had written two books criticizing their “master race” absurdities the university dismissed him soon after the 1938 Anschluss. He narrowly escaped the Gestapo as he fled briefly first to Switzerland and then to the United Sta