Voegelin and Husserl on History: An Addendum

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Voegelin and Husserl on History: An Addendum

Eric Voegelin wrote a long letter to Alfred Schütz about Husserl’s philosophy of history; I discuss this letter and some if its ramifications. Husserl as an arch-rationalist and Voegelin, interested as he was in politics, mythology, and symbols, diverged on the role of reason in history; their distinctively different perspectives give us a unique lens for viewing the relationship to rationality to history.

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