This volume contains selected correspondence written by Eric Voegelin during the period 1924 to 1949. Because of the enormous number of letters that he wrote in his later years, this book contains only letters from Eric Voegelin. The letters grant insight into the development of his thought; document the author s struggle with himself, the telos of his scholarship; and reveal an often-involuntary conflict with his life-world. These letters shed light on an ongoing and open-ended thought process from which a multifaceted, sometimes apparently contradictory, work emerged.