[Voegelin, Eric] Sebba, Gregor / [Provenance: Henry David Aiken Collection].

Eric Voegelin: From Enlightenment to Universal Humanity.

The Southern Review, 1975. Octavo. 7 pages [pages 918 – 925 of Volume XI, No.4 – Autumn 1975 of the Southern Review. Original Offprint / Stapled. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear and some staining only. Signed and inscribed by Emory Professor, Gregor Sebba, to Henry David Aiken: “For Professor Aiken from a fellow traveller – G. Sebba”.

In this excellent paper, Gregor Sebba reflects on the importance of Volume Four of Voegelin’s “Ecumenic Age”. Gregor Sebba, who inspired and followed Voegelin’s work from the early 1930s, and who also co-published the Festschrift for Voegelin’s 80th birthday, is full of praise in his paper and writes “Volume Four will stand as a landmark in the never-ending quest for an understanding of order, history and human existence”.

Gregor Sebba: “With the publication of “The Ecumenic Age”, which modestly presents itself as Volume Four of his main work “Order and History”, Eric Voegelin’s solitary intellectual enterprise – one of the greatest of the century – has come to full fruition: the philosopher has thrown off the last shackles of that historicism into which he had been born at the precise beginning of the century, January 3, 1901.″

″Gregor Sebba, born in Latvia, entered the advertising business in Austria as Hitler was coming into power. In 1931 he brought together a group of about 35 people (among them Eric Voegelin) who were troubled about the rise of totalitarianism. Civil war broke out and Sebba fled to England when threatened with arrest for his political beliefs. There he opened an art studio and served in the British Army. Early in World War II, Sebba was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services for Europe, where his duties included parachuting behind enemy lines. He came to the United States in 1938 and gained American citizenship. He was one of the founders of Austrian Action, an organization which permitted Austrian émigrés to serve with Americans in the war. Among his works was a study on displaced persons in Georgia.
Gregor Sebba was the first faculty appointment (1959-1973) to the Institute for the Liberal Arts at Emory University. Sebba left Atlanta in 1973 in order to teach for two additional years in Florida. He died in 1985.” (Source: Gregor Sebba Papers – Description on Emory Finding Aids).

• Keywords: Aiken, Henry David · Association Copies · Association Copy · Eric Voegelin · Erich Hermann Wilhelm Vögelin · Erich Voegelin · Gregor Sebba [Eric Voegelin Circle] · Henry David Aiken – Collection · Inscribed · Pamphlets Collection – Harvard · Philosophers in Exile · Signed
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 29948AB

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