About the AuthorEric 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, emigrated 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 EditorsThomas A. Hollweck is associate professor of Germanic languages and literatures at the University of Colorado at Boulder.Paul Caringella, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, served as assistant to Eric Voegelin during the final six years of Voegelin's life.