during his lifetime he published many books and more than one hundred articles. the collected works of eric voegelin makes available in a uniform edition all of voegelin's major writings. in thirty-four volumes the collected works includes the monumental, never-before-published history of political ideas; important published essays not previously collected in book form or published only in german; previously unpublished essays; selected correspondence; translations of seven books, four of them never before available in english; and the five-volume order and history.