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On Voegelin: Modernity and Gnosticism - VoegelinView

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Print - PDFEric Voegelin (1901-85) is often portrayed as one of the severest critics of modernity–its belief in human reason’s ability to understand and convey the fundamental structures of reality and its dismissal of transcendent teleologies as private and suspect beliefs. For Voegelin, modernity was a “Gnostic revolt” against reality: the belief that human beings…

June 21, 2017 Lee Trepanier Essays , Reviews , Voegelin , Voegelin (reviews) Eric Voegelin (1901-85) is often portrayed as one of the severest critics of modernity–its belief in human reason’s ability to understand and convey the fundamental structures of reality and its dismissal of transcendent teleologies as private and suspect beliefs. For Voegelin, modernity was a “Gnostic revolt” against reality: the belief that human beings can transform the nature of reality through secret knowledge and social action. According to Voegelin, Gnosticism had three primary features: a strong feeling of ali

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