For a summary of Voegelin's understanding of Nazi race ideology as an immanentization of the Christian notion of the mystical body in the form of a "Nordic race idea" that requires an antithesis of the Jews as a demonic "
counteridea," see Barry Cooper, Eric Voegelin and the Foundations of Modern Political Science (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999), 2-3, 44-47.
Through the experience of other people's stories and exposure to a variety of ideas and
counterideas, we are more able to recognize privilege and the existence of systematic inequality across cultures.