About the Author
Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) was one of the most original and influential philosophers of our time. Born in Cologne, Germany, he studied at the University of Vienna, where he became a professor of political science in the Faculty of Law. In 1938, he and his wife, fleeing Hitler, immigrated to the United States. They became American citizens in 1944. Voegelin spent much of his career at Louisiana State University, the University of Munich, and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. During his lifetime he published many books and more than one hundred articles. The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin will make available in a uniform edition all of Voegelin's major writings.
About the Editor
William Petropulos is Fellow at the Eric Voegelin Archive at the University of Munich in Germany. He is the author or editor of several books, including, with Gilbert Weiss, The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 32: The Theory of Governance and Other Miscellaneous Papers, 1921–1938 (University of Missouri Press).
Gilbert Weiss is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Salzburg in Austria. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 4, The Authoritarian State: An Essay on the Problem of the Austrian State (University of Missouri Press).