List of Eric Voegelin Society Papers
These titles were presented (as far as we know) at meetings of
the Eric Voegelin
Society. This list was assembled by Rhydon Jackson from
back issues of Voegelin--Research
News and by David Beam from issues of the Society
newsletter.
2nd Annual Meeting, August 30-3l, 1986, Washington, DC
Panel 1: ROUNDTABLE ON VOEGELIN'S PHILOSOPHY: THE LATE WORK
Chair: Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
Participants:
Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution & Peace
William C. Havard, Vanderbilt University
Gerhart Niemeyer, University of Notre Dame
Thomas A. Hollweck, University of Colorado, Boulder
Dante Germino, University of Virginia
Panel 2: VOEGELIN AND OTHERS
Chair: Kent Myers, George Mason University
Papers:
Anibal A. Bueno, Morehouse State College
Ronald Angres, George Washington University
John Felczak, Catholic University of America
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3rd Annual Metting, Sept. 5, 1987, Chicago
Panel 1: ERIC VOEGELIN AND THE SCIENCES OF SUBSTANCE
Chair: David Walsh, Catholic University of America
Papers:
"History"
Stephen A. McKnight, University of Florida
"Psychology"
Brendan Purcell, University College, Dublin
"Theology"
William Thompson, Dusquesne University
Discussants:
David Walsh, Catholic University of America
Eugene Webb, University of Washington
Panel 2:
Chair: James L. Wiser, Loyola University, Chicago
Participants:
Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
John G. Gunnell, SUNY at Albany
Kenneth W. Thompson, University of Virginia
Dante Germino, University of Virginia
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4th Annual Meeting, Sept. 3, 1988, Washington, DC
Panel 1: UNFINISHED DIRECTIONS IN VOEGELIN'S THOUGHT
Chair: Stephen A. McKnight, University of Florida
Papers:
"Outline of a Theory of Ethics and Politics"
James M. Rhodes, Marquette University
"Toward a New Conception of Myth"
Anibal A. Bueno, Morehouse State College
Discussants:
Kent Moors, Dusquesne University
James L. Wiser, Loyola University, Chicago
Panel 2: VOEGELIN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
Chair: David Freeman, Washburn University
Papers:
"Voegelin and Schutz"
Stephen F. Schneck, Catholic University of America
"Voegelin and Other Interpreters of Plato"
Peter Emberley, Carleton University
"Voegelin and Oakeshott on History"
Athanasios Moulakis, Harvard University
Discussant: Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
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5th Annual Meeting, Sept. 3, 1989, Atlanta
Panel 1: ROUNDTABLE ON ERIC VOEGELIN & LEO STRAUSS ON RELIGION AND ITS PLACE IN
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Co-sponsored by "Religion & Politics" Panel 12-13
Chair: Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
Participants:
Ernest L. Fortin, Boston College
Paul Grimley Kuntz, Emory University
James M. Rhodes, Marquette University
Panel 2: DIMENSIONS OF MODERNITY
Chair: David Walsh, Catholic University of America
Papers:
"The Life of Order and the Order of Life: Eric Voegelin on Modernity and the
Problem of Philosophical Anthrology"
David J. Levy, Middlesex Polytechnic, London
"The Contribution of Sir Francis Bacon"
Stephen A. McKnight, University of Florida
"Orestes Brownson and the American Polity"
Gregory Butler, Catholic University of America
"Solzhenitsyn's Anamnetic Recovery of Order"
Brendan Purcel, University College, Dublin
Discussants:
David Walsh, Catholic University of America
Michael Franz, Loyola College, Maryland
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6th Annual Meeting, Sept 1, 1990, San Francisco
Panel l: WHAT IS HISTORY AND IS IT AT AN END?
Chair: Thomas A. Hollweck, University of Colorado, Boulder
Participants:
Gerhart Niemeyer, University of Notre Dame
Athanasios Moulakis, University of Colorado, Boulder
Manfred Henningsen, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution & Peace
Anibal A. Bueno, Morehouse State College
Panel 2: ERIC VOEGELIN AND LEO STRAUSS ON RELIGION AND ITS PLACE IN POLITICAL
PHILOSOPHY: ROUND 2
Chair: David Walsh, Catholic University
Participants:
Gerhart Niemeyer, University of Notre Dame
Harry V. Jaffa, Claremont Graduate School
James L. Wiser, Loyola University, Chicago
Stephen A. McKnight, University of Florida
Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
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7th Annual Meeting, August 30-3l, 199l, Washington, DC
Panel 1: MODERNITY AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: ERIC VOEGELIN, HANNAH ARENDT, AND
MARTIN HEIDEGGER
Chair: Kennneth L. Deutsch, SUNY at Geneseo
Papers:
"Arendt and Heidegger"
John Francis Burke, University of Houston-Downtown
"Voegelin's Theory of Modernity and his Critics"
William Luckey, Christendom College
"Voegelin, Heidegger, and the Pre-Socratics"
David Mason, Mary Baldwin College
Discussants:
Kenneth L. Deutsch, SUNY at Geneseo
Wayne F. Allen, Louisiana State University
Panel 2: POLITICS, MYSTICISM, AND SCIENCE
Chair: Stephen A. McKnight, University of Florida
Papers:
"Voegelin's Account of Equivalences"
Noreen O'Carroll, University College, Dublin
"Mysticism and Politics from the Christian Perspective"
William Thompson, Duquesne University
"Voegelin and Theology"
Michael Morrissey, University of St. Thomas
"Mind, Reason, and Social Forms: A Medical Perspective"
Lalla Iverson, M.D., ARAM Research Office
"Myth, Voegelin , and the Recovery of Hawaiian Local Knowledge"
Kehaulani K. Kealoha, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Discussants:
Stephen A. McKnight, University of Florida
David Walsh, Catholic University of America
Owen Jones, Foundation for Faith in the Search of Understanding
Panel 3: ROUNDTABLE ON THE RECOVERY OF HUMAN AGENCY: HANNAH ARENDT, ERIC
VOEGELIN AND REVOLUTION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Chair: Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
Participants:
Manfred Henningsen, University of Hawaii, Manao
Martin Palous, Deputy Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia (CSFR)
and Charles University
Zdravko Planinc, McMaster University
Paul Carimgella, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution & Peace
Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
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8th Annual Meeting, Sept. 4-5, 1992, Chicago
Panel 1: ROUNDTABLE ON SCIENCE, PSEUDO-SCIENCE AND UTOPIANISM
Chair: Stephen A. McKnight, University of Florida
Participants:
Wilbur Applebaum, Illinois Institute of Technology
Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
David Walsh, Catholic University of America
Panel 2: VOEGELIN AND THE RENEWAL OF THE VISION OF THE COSMOS
Chair: Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution & Peace
Papers:
"The Cosmos as Faith: Voegelin's Primary Symbol of the Cosmos"
Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution & Peace
"The Cosmos of Modernity"
Anibal A. Bueno, Morehouse State College
"Cosmos or Akosmia: Quantum Physics--A Crisis for Philosophy"
Kenneth Quandt, A. Quandt & Son, Inc.
"The New Universe Story"
Thomas Berry, The Riverdale Center
Discussants:
Michael Gibbons, University of California-Berkeley & University of Manchester
Claire Rawnsley, The University of Queensland
Panel 3: ROUNDTABLE: REFLECTIONS ON VOEGELIN'S _THE NATURE OF LAW_
Chair: David Granfield, Catholic University of America
Participants:
Robert A. Pascal, Louisiana State University
Gerard V. Bradley, University of Illinois
Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
Chair: Manfred Henningsen, University of Hawaii-Manoa
Participants:
Kenneth Keulman, Loyola University of the South
Michael G. Franz, Loyola College
Andrew Hoffman, University of Hawaii-Manoa
Allen A. Huemer, Central Wyoming College
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9th Annual Meeting, Sept. 3-4, 1993, Washington, DC
Panel l: ROUNDTABLE ON ETHNIC TRANSFORMATION & THE RE-SYMBOLIZATION OF AMERICA:
IS A "MULTI-CULTURAL" NATION POSSIBLE?
Chair: Lawrence Auster, New York
Participants:
Rabbi Mayer Schiller, Yeshiva School for Boys
Manfred Henningsen, University of Hawaii-Manoa
Kenneth L. Grasso, Southwest Texas State University
Athanasios Moulakis, University of Colorado-Boulder
Panel 2: CIVIL SOCIETY, CIVIC CULTURE & MODERNITY
Chair: Manfred Henningsen, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Papers:
"Civil Society in Germany"
Manfred Henningsen, University of Hawaii, Manoa
"John Quincy Adams & Civil Theology: The Religious Foundations of American Liberty"
Gregory Russell, University of Oklahoma & Nathalie Gagnere University of Oklahoma
"The Quest for Civil Society & Civic Consciousness in Central Europe"
Martin Palous, Charles University, Prague
"Civil Society in the Scandinavian Experience"
Bernd Henninsen, Humboldt University, Berlin
Discussant: William Barclay Allen, Michigan State University
Panel 3: VOEGELIN AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION
Chair: Michael G. Franz, Loyola College Maryland
Papers:
"Ishmael's 'Wisdom' and Ahab's 'Magic of the Extreme' "
Helen P. Trimpi, Independent Scholar
"Voegelin's Concept of the Language of Being"
James L. Babin, Louisiana State University
"Gnostic Self-creation in Shakespeare's _Richard III_"
Jack E. Trotter, Vanderbildt University
"James Joyce, Eric Voegelin and 'It-Reality' "
Robert A. Watson, Yale University
"Fernando Pessao: To Be or Not to Be a Gnostic"
Mendo Castro Henriques, Universidad Catolica Portuguesa
Discussant: Thomas A. Hollweck, University of Colorado, Boulder
Panel 4: VOEGELIN AND THE NATIONAL SOCIALISTS
Chair: Thomas Heilke, University of Kansas
Papers:
"Ethos and Ethnos: Race and State in the Politics and History of Europe"
David J. Levy, Middlesex University, London
"Eric Voegelin's 'History and Deutschen' Lectures (1966): Philosophical
Diagnosis and Judgement"
Brendan Purcell, University College, Dublin
"Philosophy and Resistance? Voegelin's Treatment of European Racism"
Thomas Heilke, University of Kansas
Discussants:
Jürgen Gebhardt, University of Erlangen, Nürnberg
Murray Jardine, Louisiana State University
Panel 5: WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY: RATIONALISM, NOESIS, MYSTICISM? THE
STRAUSS-VOEGELIN DEBATE--ROUNDTABLE I
* Panels 5 & 6 are devoted to issues that arise from the important new book
_Faith and Political Philosophy: The Correspondence Between Leo Strauss & Eric
Voegelin 1934-1964_, trans. & ed. Peter Emberley & Barry Cooper (University
Park: Penn State University, 1993.)
Chair: Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
Participants:
James L. Wiser, Loyola University, Chicago
Ernest L. Fortin, Boston College
Daniel Mahonery, Assumption College
Jürgen Gebhardt, University of Erlangen, Nürnberg
John von Heyking, University of Calgary
Walter J. Thompson, University of Notre Dame
Panel 6: WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY: RATIONALISM, NOESIS, MYSTICISM? THE
STRAUSS-VOEGELIN DEBATE--ROUNDTABLE II
Chair: Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
Participants:
Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution & Peace
Ralph McInerny, University of Notre Dame
Shadia B. Drury, University of Calgary
Daniel J. Elazar, Temple University
Glenn Hughes, St. Mary's University
Donald Livingston, Emory University
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10th Annual Meeting, Sept. 5-6, 1994, New York
Panel l: VOEGELIN AND HEGEL IN DIALOGUE
Chair: Clarence F. Sills, Jr., U.S. Naval academy
Papers:
"What is living and what is dead in Voegelin's critique of Hegel?"
Cyril O'Regan, Yale University
"In Defense of Hegel"
Shadia B. Drury, University of Calgary
"Hegel as Critic of Voegelin"
Clarence F. Sills, Jr., U.S. Naval Academy
Discussants:
Paul Gottfried, Elizabethtown College
Stanley Rosen, Pennsylvania State University
Panel 2: VOEGELIN AND SAINT AUGUSTINE
Chair: Peter von Sivers, University of Utah
Papers:
"Remembering: The Young Augustine and the Young Voegelin"
Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution& Peace
"Recollecting Reality: Augustine's _Confessions_ and Voegelin's _Order and
History_"
Robert C. McMahon, Lousiana State University
"Questions for Reflection in Voegelin and Augustine"
Geoffrey L. Price, Manchester University
"The Role of Faith and Love in the Formation of the Heart: Voegelin's Mystical
Epistemology"
Charles W. Burchfield, Louisiana State University
Discussant: Peter von Sivers, University of Utah
Panel 3: DEMOCRACY AND CHRISTIANITY IN THE MODERN WORLD
Chair: Robert P. Kraynak, Colgate University
Papers:
"Religion and Postmodern Reform: The Dissident Criticism of American democracy
by Solzhenitsyn and Havel"
Peter Augustine Lawler, Berry College
"Liberalism and Christianity: Locke's Christian Setting"
David Walsh, Catholic University of America
"On the Compatibility of Democracy and Christianity: An Analysis of the
Political Theologies of Glen Tinder and Jacques Maritain"
Robert P. Kraynak, Colgate University
Discussants:
Ernest L. Fortin, Boston College
Susan Orr, Claremont Graduate School
Panel 4: ROUNDTABLE: ON VOEGELIN AND THE MEANING OF LAW
Chair: Jene M. Porter, University of Saskatchewan
Participants:
Henrik Syse, University of Oslo
William T. Tête, Loyola University of New Orleans Law School
William Thompson, Duquesne University
Jene M. Porter, University of Saskatchewan
Panel 5: SPIRITUAL & PHILOSOPHICAL DIMENSIONS OF THE AMERICAN MIND
Chair: Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
Papers:
"Tragedy in American Statecraft"
Gregory Russell, University of Oklahoma
"John C. Calhoun and Popular Rule"
H. Lee Cheek, Catholic University of America
"Voegelin's Early Vision: _The Form of the American Mind_"
Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
Discussants:
George K. Romoser, University of New Hampshire
Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
Panel 6: ROUNDTABLE ON CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE'S DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS
Chair: Donald S. Lutz, University of Houston
Participants:
Ken Whelan, Peripatetic Productions
Martin Palous, Charles University, Prague
A.E. Dick Howard, University of Virginia Law School
Joseph R. Marbach, Seton Hall University
Panel 7: ROUNDTABLE ON VOEGELIN AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION
Chair: Glenn Hughes, St. Mary's University, San Antonio
Participants:
Calder Willingham, Independent Writer
Eugene Webb, University of Washington
Mary Pope Osborne, Author's Guild of America
Thomas D'Evelyn, Thomas D'Evelyn Literary Agency, Inc.
Steven Shankman, University of Oregon
Panel 8: ROUNDTABLE ON VOEGELIN'S _THE ECUMENIC AGE_: A 20-YEAR
RETROSPECTIVE
Chair: Michael Franz, Loyola College, Maryland
Participants:
Stephen A. McKnight, University of Florida
Gerhart Niemayer, University of Notre Dame
James M. Rhodes, Marquette University
James L. Wiser, Loyola University, Chicago
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11th Annual Meeting, Sept. 1-2, 1995, Chicago
Panel 1: NOMINALISM, REALISM, POST-MODERNISM--AND ERIC VOEGELIN
Chair: Clarence F. Sills, Jr., U.S. Naval Academy
Papers:
"Telling Tales: Intention, Participation & Narrative in Voegelin's Theory of Consciousness"
Thomas Heilke, University of Kansas
"Kicking the Rock & Viewing the Icon: Epistemology Between Heaven & Earth"
Jonathan Chaves, George Washington University
"The Real Nominalism of Post-Modernity"
J. Bottum, Associate Editor of First Things
"Consciousness and Reality: Eric Voegelin's Mitigated Realism"
Clarence F. Sills, Jr., U. S. Naval Academy
Disc: Stuart D. Warner, Roosevelt University
Panel 2: VOEGELIN AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
Chair: Glenn Hughes, St. Mary's University, San Antonio
Papers:
"The Figure of Experience and Expression in Voegelin's Philosophy of Religion"
Frederick Lawrence, Boston College
"Voegelin and Creatio ex Nihilo"
Ken Whelan, The Peripatetic Porch
"Grounding Public Discourse: Eric Voegelin's Contribution"
John Ranieri, Seton Hall University
Disc: Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution
Michael Morrissey, University of St. Thomas
Michael P. Federici, Mercyhurst College
Panel 3: THE NOTION OF POLITICS IN VOEGELIN'S POLITICAL THEORY
Chair: Manfred Henningsen, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Papers:
"Between Philosophy and Common Sense: Voegelin's Evasion of Politics"
Manfred Henningsen, University of Hawaii at Manoa
"Voegelin and the Politics of Rebellion,"
Cindy Kobayashi, University of Hawaii at Manoa
"Transcendence and Politics: Voegelin's Critique of Modernity"
Louis Herman, University of Hawaii at West Oahu
Disc: Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
Juergen Gebhardt, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
PANEL 4: MAN AND NATURE IN CHRISTIAN THOUGHT
Chair: Robert P. Kraynak, Colgate University
Papers:
"Science and Gnosticism: Walker Percy and Vaclav Havel on Man in the Cosmos"
Peter Augustine Lawler, Berry College
"The Experience of Totalitarianism & the Recovery of Nature: Thoughts on Solzhenitsyn, Havel, & Strauss"
Daniel J. Mahoney, Assumption College
"The Christian View of Human Dignity: Ancient and Modern Perspectives"
Robert P. Kraynak, Colgate University
Disc: Cecil L. Eubanks, Louisiana State University
Martin Palous, Charles University
Panel 5: THE PERSISTENCE OF GNOSTIC ELITES DURING DEMOCRATIC REGIME TRANSITIONS IN LATIN AMERICA
Chair: David C. Jordan, University of Virginia
Papers:
"Oligarchy and the Argentine Privatization"
Lowell S. Gustafason, Villanova University
"Obstructing Transitions: The Case of Mexico"
David C. Jordan, University of Virginia
"Bolivia and Ecuador: Successes & Failures in Democratization"
Edward A. Lynch, Hollins College
"The Orthodox Catholic View of Neoliberalism"
Craig Waggaman, Radford University
Disc: Robert A. Packenham, Stanford University
Emilio Pacheco, Liberty Fund, Inc.
Panel 6: ROUNDTABLE ON VOEGELIN'S "HISTORY OF POLITICAL IDEAS"
Chair: Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
Parts: Thomas Hollweck, University of Colorado, Boulder
Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution
Peter von Sivers, University of Utah
Athanasios Moulakis, University of Colorado, Boulder
David Walsh, Catholic University of America
Panel 7: ANCIENTS, MEDIEVALS AND MODERNS IN VOEGELIN'S PHILOSOPHY
Chair: Jene M. Porter, University of Saskatchewan
Papers:
"Voegelin on Aristotelian Noesis"
Gerald Day, McMaster University
"Axis History and Participation in St. Augustine: Memory, Time, Mystery & Ascent"
Mark L. Johnson, Louisiana State University
"Voegelin and Thomas Hobbes"
Henrik Syse, University of Oslo.
"Plato's Metaxy in the Thought of Voegelin and Simone Weil"
William P. Simmons, Louisiana State University
"Voegelin and Analytic Philosophy"
Jene M. Porter, University of Saskatchewan
Disc: John von Heyking, Notre Dame University
Panel 8: VOEGELIN'S FROM ENLIGHTENMENT TO REVOLUTION AFTER 20 YEARS
Chair: Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
Papers:
"Voegelin's Analysis of the Deformation of Consciousnes In Voltaire"
Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
"The Moral Blindness of Scientific Man: Eric Voegelin & Hans Morganthau on the Ethics of Modernity"
Greg Russell, University of Oklahoma
"The Secularization of Natural Law and Its Consequences"
William Tete, Loyola University of New Orleans
Disc: Michael G. Franz, Loyola College of Maryland
Murray Jardine, Louisiana State University
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12th Annual Meeting, Aug. 30-31, 1996, San Francisco
Panel 1: VOEGELIN CONTRA HEIDEGGER: WHERE DO THE DIFFERENCES LIE?
Chair: William Tete, Loyola University of New Orleans
Papers:
"Two Faces of Plato: Voegelin and Heidegger"
Stuart Warner, Roosevelt University
"Authoritarian Thought"
Shadia B. Drury, University of Calgary
"Reading Voegelin As A Response to Heidegger"
William Tete, Loyola University of New Orleans
Disc: Manfred Henningsen, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Martin Palous, Charles University, Prague
Panel 2: VOEGELIN, KANT AND THE MEANING OF REASON
Chair: Clarence F. Sills, United States Naval Academy
Papers:
"The _Non-Experientiable_ Ordering Force: Reflections on the Kantian Baggage and In Search of Order"
Peter von Sivers, University of Utah
"Concept and Symbol in Kant and Voegelin"
Clarence F. Sills, United States Naval Academy
"Voegelin, Gadamer and Marburg Neo-Kantianism"
Gerald L. Day, McMaster University
Disc: Phillip Goggans, Seattle Pacific University
Cecil L. Eubanks, Louisiana State University
Panel 3: VOEGELIN'S READING OF THE ANCIENTS
Chair: Zdravko Planinc, McMaster University
Papers:
"The Derailment of the Mystic Philosophers: or, Sophistic Thinking in a Technical Sense"
Thomas Chance, Independent Scholar
"The Uses of Plato in Voegelin's Philosophy"
Zdravko Planinc, McMaster University
"Meditation and the Paradox of Consciousness: Voegelin and Augustine"
Robert McMahon, Louisiana State University
Disc: Kenneth Quandt, Independent Scholar
Athanasios Moulakis, University of Colorado, Boulder
PANEL 4: THERAPY, POLITICAL AND PERSONAL: VOEGELIN'S ANALYSIS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: Glenn Hughes, St. Mary's University
Papers:
"Therapies in Voegelin's Vienna"
Reinhold Knoll & Gilbert Weiss, University of Vienna
"Consciousness or Psyche? Voegelin's Advances in Analysis"
Thomas A. Hollweck, University of Colorado, Boulder
"Order of Psyche & Order of Society"
Glenn Hughes, St. Mary's University
"Voegelin and Therapy: An Analyst's Caveats"
David Tresan, M. D., C. G. Jung Institute of Northern California
Disc: Eugene Webb, University of Washington
John von Heyking, University of Notre Dame
Panel 5: POLITICAL THEORY, RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY IN VOEGELIN'S WORK
Chair: Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
Papers:
"Augustine and Vico in Voegelin's Philosophy of History"
Geoffrey Price, University of Manchester
"The 'People of God' and the Rise of Ideological Politics"
Thomas W. Heilke, University of Kansas
"Voegelin on Hitler and the Germans"
Brendan Purcell, University College, Dublin
"Christian Realism and American Democracy: Reinhold Niebuhr and Eric Voegelin"
Greg Russell, University of Oklahoma
Disc: Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
Peter von Sivers, University of Utah
Panel 6: VOEGELIN'S ISRAEL AND REVELATION AFTER 40 YEARS: A ROUNDTABLE
Chair: William M. Thompson, Duquesne University
The topics for the "Israel & Revelation" Roundtable
(a 40th Anniversary Reappraisal)
1) A "Second Look" at My Earlier Review-Essay
(Bernhard Anderson, Princeton)
2) The Place of "Israel & Revelation" in Voegelin's "Werk"
(Ellis Sandoz, LSU)
3) A Jewish Perspective
(Aaron Mackler, Duquesne U)
4) Revisiting Isaiah and "Metastasis"
(David Morse, Duquesne U -- Co-chair of Roundtable)
5) Christ & Christianity in "Israel & Revelation"
(William M. Thompson, Duquesne U -- Co-Chair of Roundtable)
6) Perspectives from Contemporary Political Theory
(John Jordan, U of Virginia -- replacing Dante Germino)
7) A Levinasian Reading
(Marie Baird, Duquesne U)
Response: Paul Caringella (Hoover Inst.)
Panel 7: HUMAN NATURE, CONSCIOUSNESS AND POLITICS IN RECENT PHILOSOPHY
Chair: Jene M. Porter, University of Saskatchewan
Papers:
"Voegelin and the Frankfurt School"
Manfred Henningsen, University of Hawaii at Manoa
"Husserl, Patocka and Voegelin: The Crisis of Political Consciousness"
Martin Palous, Charles University, Prague
"Charles Taylor, John R. Searle and Eric Voegelin: What is Mind?"
Jene M. Porter, University of Saskatchewan
"Voegelin and Emmanuel Levinas: A Comparison"
Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution
Disc: Steven R. McCarl, University of Denver
Panel 8: WHAT IS MODERNITY?
Chair: Stephen A. McKnight, University of Florida
Papers:
"Blumenberg, Loewith and Voegelin on Secularization"
Henrik Syse, University of Oslo
"Modernity and the Problem of Transcendence"
Eugene Webb, University of Washington
"Francis Bacon, Puritan Gnosticism and Modernity"
Stephen A. McKnight, University of Florida
"Between Sacralization and Secularization: Cudworth's Alternative to the Modern Conscience"
Lenore Thomas Ealy, The Johns Hopkins University
Disc: David J. Walsh, Catholic University of America
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12th Annual Meeting, Aug. 29-30, 1997, Washington, DC
Panel 1: VOEGELIN AND PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: Jene M. Porter, University of Saskatchewan
Papers:
"Eric Voegelin and the Schelling Renaissance"
Gerald L. Day, McMaster University
"Charles Taylor, John R. Searle, and Eric Voegelin: What is Mind?"
Jene M. Porter, University of Saskatchewan
"The Nexus of Politics: Camus' First Man and Voegelin's Anamnetic Recovery"
John Randolph LeBlanc, Louisiana State University
"Voegelin and Rosenstock-Huessy on History & Revolution"
Wayne Cristaudo, University of Adelaide
Disc: Henrik Syse, University of Oslo
Geoffrey L. Price, University of Manchester
Panel 2: ERIC VOEGELIN'S HISTORY OF POLITICAL IDEAS: A ROUNDTABLE
Chair: Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
Participants:
Athanasios Moulakis, University of Colorado, Boulder
David Walsh, Catholic University of America
Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
Thomas Hollweck, University of Colorado, Boulder
James L. Wiser, Jr., Loyola University of Chicago
John Agresto, St. John's College in Santa Fe
Panel 3: ERIC VOEGELIN'S "THE GOSPEL AND CULTURE": A ROUNDTABLE
Chair: William M. Thompson, Duquesne University
Participants:
Henrik Syse, University of Oslo
William M. Thompson, Duquesne University
David L. Morse, Duquesne University
V. Bradley Lewis, Catholic University of America
PANEL 4: PHILOSOPHY AND FICTION: ERIC VOEGELIN & MODERN LITERATURE
Chair: Charles R. Embry, Texas A & M University, Commerce
Papers:
"The Mirth of Angels and Devils: Activist Dreaming and the Poles of Utopianism and Absurdity in Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting"
Polly Detels, Texas A & M, Commerce
"'Farewell cool reason and fair discretion!' Or, Apperzeptions-verweigerung and Second Reality in Heimoto von Doderer and Eric Voegelin"
Charles R. Embry, Texas A & M, Commerce
"Experience and Symbolization of 'Politics' in Dazai Osamu's Shayo [Setting Sun]"
Timothy Hoye, Texas Woman's University
"A Novelist's Exploration of the Depth: Hermann Broch's The Sleepwalkers"
Jodi Cockerill, University of Notre Dame
"Political Theory and Representation in Robert Penn Warren"
Steven D. Ealy, Liberty Fund, Inc.
Disc: Martin Palous, Charles University, Prague
Cecil L. Eubanks, Louisiana State University
Panel 5: GNOSTICISM IN ITS MODERN MANIFESTATIONS
Chair: Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Papers:
"Harold Bloom's Gnostic America"
Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
"The Romance of the Soul: Literature and the Gnostic Psychodrama"
Thomas A. Hollweck, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Participation and Its Discontents: Gnostic Anxiety"
Glenn Hughes, St. Mary's University at San Antonio
"History and Gnosis: Voegelin's Reply to Bultmann"
Christopher Colmo, Rosary College
"Hyperdemocracy and the Gnostic Impulse"
William D. Gairdner, Independent Scholar
Disc: John von Heyking, University of Notre Dame
Todd Breyfogle, University of Chicago & Liberty
Neal Fuller, Louisiana State University
Panel 6: ETHICS AND REALITY: VOEGELIN, LEVINAS AND LONERGAN
Chair: Glenn A. Hughes, St. Mary's University
Papers:
"PERIAGOGE: Conversion and Differentiation in Voegelin and Lonergan"
Fred Lawrence, Boston College
"Equivalence of Meaning: Cognitional Theory and the History of Symbols"
Thomas J. McPartland, Whitney Young College, Kentucky State University
"Human Subjectivity as a Partnership in Being: A Dialogue Between Voegelin and Levinas"
Marie L. Baird, Duquesne University
Disc: David Walsh, Catholic University of America
Steven McCarl, University of Denver
Kenneth Keulman, Loyola University of New Orleans
Panel 7: NOESIS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY: VOEGELIN, HAYEK, MISES, & ROEPKE
Chair: Clarence F. Sills, U. S. Naval Academy
Papers:
"Reflections on Prospects for 'Ordered Liberty' in Voegelin, von Mises and Roepke"
Clarence F. Sills, U. S. Naval Academy
"Anti-Scientism and Liberty in the Thought of Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek and Wilhelm Roepke"
William F. Campbell, Louisiana State University
"Against A Scientism of Management, Again!"
Nathan W. Harter, Purdue University
Disc: William T. Tete, Loyola University of New Orleans
Michael G. Franz, Loyola College of Maryland
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13th Annual Meeting, Sept. 4-5, 1998, Boston
Panel 1: Multiple Modernities: Voegelin's Relevance to Contemporary International Political Theory-A Roundtable
Chair: Mendo Castro Henriques, Catholic University of Portugal
Papers:
"Is Modernity Gnostic?"
David J. Levy, Middlesex University, London
"Modernity and Philosophy: The Italian Reception of Voegelin"
Sandro Chignola, University of Verona, Italy
"Voegelin and French Philosophy: There and Back"
Jacob Schmutz, Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris
"Voegelin & Current Trends in Portuguese Political Theory"
Mendo Castro Henriques, Catholic University of Portugal
"Multiple Modernities"
Shmuel Eisenstadt, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
"Voegelin and Democratization Issues"
Paul Rich & Guillermo de los Reyes, University of the Americas, Peublo
Panel 2: Voegelin's "Race" books As A Critique of Nazi Ideology
Chair: Manfred Henningsen, University of Hawaii
Papers:
"Contemporary Responses to Voegelin's 'Race' Books: A Critical Overview"
Thomas A. Hollweck, University of Colorado-Boulder
"Hannah Arendt and Eric Voegelin on Race Thinking and Modernity"
Leah Bradshaw, Brock University, Ontario
"The Philosophical Anthropology of Race: A Voegelinian Encounter"
Thomas W. Heilke, University of Kansas
"Voegelin's Overcoming of Race as _Ersatzpolitik_"
Manfred Henningsen, University of Hawaii
Respondant: Klaus Vondung, University of Siegen, Germany
Panel 3: Voegelin, the Ancient Greeks, and the Nature of Philosophy
Chair: Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
Papers:
"Literature and Transcendence in Plato, Pseudo-Longinus, and Voegelin"
Richard F. Moorton, Connecticut College
"Mystic Philosophy in Plato's Seventh Letter"
James M. Rhodes, Marquette University
"Plato on Suffering and Salvation: A Voegelinian Reading"
Zdravko Planinc, McMaster University (Ontario)
"Voegelin's Reading of the Parmenides: Some Critical Reflections"
Mark W. Sinnett, First Presbyterian Church of Stephenville, Texas
Disc: Athanasios Moulakis, University of Colorado-Boulder
Panel 4: Reason and Revelation in Voegelin's Philosophy
Chair: John Ranieri, Seton Hall University
Papers:
"Does Athens Need Jerusalem? The Bible in Voegelin's Later Thought"
John Ranieri, Seton Hall University
"Is the Distinction Between Reason and Revelation Obsolete?"
Frederick G. Lawrence, Boston College
"Restoring the Conversation: Socratic Dialectic in Kierkegaard"
Mark W. Sinnett, First Presbyterian Church of Stephenville, Texas
"Religion in the Thought of John Stuart Mill"
Linda Raeder, Catholic University of America
Disc: David Walsh, Catholic University of America
Cecil L. Eubanks, Louisiana State University
Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution & Peace
Panel 5: Voegelin and the Diversity of Politics
Chair: Jene M. Porter, University of Saskatchewan
Papers:
"Voegelin, Violence, and Gnosticism"
Dante Germino, University of Amsterdam
"The Transcendental in American Statecraft: The Political Theory of Theodore Roosevelt"
Greg Russell, University of Oklahoma
"Just Law Theory in Light of Voegelin,"
Henrik Syse, University of Oslo
"Understanding Totalitarianism After the Velvet Revolution"
Martin Palous, Charles University
Disc: Lee Trepanier, Louisiana State University
Jene M. Porter, University of Saskatchewan
Panel 6: Cosmos and World, Myth and Dedivinization in Voegelin's Late Work
Chair: Glenn Hughes, Saint Mary's University
Papers:
"Voegelin on the Significance of Plato's Myths of Immortality"
Mark Morelli, Loyola Marymount
"Voegelin's Late Work as an Approach to Education"
Thomas D'Evelyn, Brown Learning Community
"Logos and Community in Eric Voegelin and Simone Weil"
Margaret S. Hrezo, Radford University
"Twilight of the Gods: the Problem of Divine Presence in the World after Differentiation"
Glenn Hughes, Saint Mary's University, San Antonio
Disc: Eugene Webb, University of Washington
Thomas McPartland, Whitney Young College, Kentucky State University
Panel 7: Experience and Reality in Ethics and Politics
Chair: Steven Ealy, Liberty Fund, Inc.
Papers:
"Transcendence and Subjectivity: A Comparison of Voegelin with Emmanuel Levinas"
Marie Baird, Duquesne University & Steve McCarl, University of Denver
"Voegelin's Debt to Schelling"
Gerald L. Day, McMaster University, Ontario
"Voegelin and Marx"
Michael Franz, Loyola College of Maryland
Disc: Barry Cooper, University of Calgary, Alberta
Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
Steven Ealy, Liberty Fund, Inc.
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15th Annual Meeting, Sept. 3-4, 1999, Atlanta
Panel 1. Nietzsche and Husserl in the Political Theory of Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss
Chair: Cecil Eubanks, Louisiana State University
Papers:
"Beyond Nature and Convention: Voegelin's Political Theory as an Alternative to Straussian Objectivism and Nietzschean Subjectivism"
Murray Jardine, Auburn University
"Voegelin's Nietzschean Critique of Modernity"
Zdravko Planinc, McMaster University
"Voegelin, Patoka, and Husserl's "Crisis of European Sciences"
Edward F. Findlay, Louisiana State University
"Leo Strauss's Understanding of Nietzsche"
Horst Mewes, University of Colorado, Boulder
Disc: Gilbert Weiss, University of Vienna
Clarence Sills, Independent Scholar
Panel 2. Ethnicity and Universality: Voegelin and Contemporary Theory in Dialogue
Chair: William M. Thompson, Duquesne University
Papers:
"The Improbability of a 'Clash of Civilizations'"
Manfred Henningsen, University of Hawaii
"Old Wine in New Skins? The Religious Challenge to Political Order in Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations "
Dennis Marshall, Aquinas College
"A Voegelinian Reading of Miroslav Volf's Exclusion and Embrace..."
David L. Morse, Duquesne University
"'Human nature,' 'humankind,' and 'history' in Voegelin's Philosophical Anthropology"
Stefan Rossbach, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury
Disc: Marie Baird, Duquesne University
William M. Thompson, Duquesne University
Greg Russell, University of Oklahoma
Panel 3: Voegelin's Augustinian Assumptions
Chair: Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
Papers:
"The Anatomy of Remembrance: Voegelin's Debt to St. Augustine"
Todd Breyfogle, Liberty Fund, Inc.
"Voegelin's Philosophy of History and Augustine"
Henrik Syse, University of Oslo
"Political Friendship in Voegelin and Augustine"
John F. von Heyking, University of Calgary
"Participation and Creation: Voegelin and Augistine's Confessions"
Robert C. McMahon, Louisiana State University
Disc: Paul Grimley Kuntz, Emory University
Elizabeth Campbell Corey, Louisiana State University
Panel 4: Voegelin and Christianity
Chair: John Ranieri, Seton Hall
Papers:
"What Voegelin Missed in the Gospels"
John Ranieri, Seton Hall
"Is Paul Tillich Hiding? The In-Between Structure of (Existential) Correlation"
Mark W. Sinnett, Clemmons Presbyterian Church
"The Inseparability of Faith and Reason"
David Walsh, Catholic University of America
Disc: Glenn Hughes, St. Mary's University, San Antonio
Brian J. Braman, Boston College
Panel 5: Totalitarianism: The Voegelin-Arendt Controversy
Chair: Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
Papers:
"Voegelin's Review of Arendt's Book The Origins of Totalitarianism
Manfred Henningsen, University of Hawaii at Manoa
"The Voegelin-Arendt Controversy over Totalitarianism"
Martin Palous, Charles University, Prauge
"Voegelin's Second Look at Totalitarianism: The Munich Lectures on Hitler and the Germans"
Brendan Purcell, University College Dublin
"The Relevance of Voegelin's Concept 'Political Religion'"
Friedemann Buettner, Free University Berlin
Disc: Jeffrey C. Isaac, Indiana University
Panel 6: Are There Practical Applications of Voegelin's Political Philosophy?
Chair: Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution
Papers:
"Why Eric Voegelin Can Assist Empirical Political Science"
Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
"Teaching Voegelin to Undergraduates: Labor of Sisyphus or No Alternative To It?"
Nicholas John Pappas, Radford University
"The Breakup of Yugoslavia: A Voegelinian Perspective"
James K. Bruton, Independent Scholar
"Voegelin and Donald Winnicott on the In-Between in Human Life"
Robert S. Seiler, Jr., Independent Scholar
Disc: David D. Corey, Louisiana State University
Paul Rich, University of the Americas, Pueblo
Panel 7: Beyond Good and Evil: Spiritualism, Violence, and the Destruction of Order
Chair: Thomas Hollweck, University of Colorado, Boulder
Papers:
"Between Birds of Prey: Violent Thought Beyond Good and Evil"
Thomas Hollweck, University of Colorado, Boulder
"Gnosticism and Violence in 20th Century Politics"
Dante Germino, University of Virginia
"Apocalypse and Violence"
Klaus Vondung, University of Siegen
Disc: Michael Henry, St. Vincent's College, St. John's University
Michael Franz, Loyola College of Maryland
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16th Annual Meeting, Sept. 1-2, 2000, Washington, DC
Panel 1. Representation, Ethics, and Sources of Order in the Thought of Eric Voegelin, Paul Ricouer, Emmanuel Levinas, Gilles Deleuze, and Xavier Zubiri
Chair: Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution
Papers:
"Levinas and Voegelin on the 'Foundations' of Politics"
William Paul Simmons, Bethany College
"Transcendence and Immanence: Eric Voegelin and Gilles Deleuze on Conditions for Political Order"
Jeff Bell, Southeastern Louisiana University
"Sight, Sound, and Postmodernity: The Role of Speech in Reconstructing Ethical Discourse"
Murray Jardine, Auburn University
"Phenomenology, Representation, and Symbols in the Thought of Voegelin and Paul Ricoeur"
Peter A. Petrakis, Southeastern Louisiana University
"Voegelin, Levinas, and Zubiri: Beginning A Conversation"
Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution
Disc: Marie Baird, Duquesne University
Oona Ajzenstat, McMaster University
Panel 2. Voegelin and the Study of Machiavelli
Chair: Athanasios Moulakis, University of Colorado, Boulder
Papers:
"Was Machiavelli a Spiritual Realist?"
Dante Germino, University of Virginia
"Machiavelli: the Father of Leadership Studies"
Nathan W. Harter, Purdue University
"Strauss and Voegelin on Machiavelli"
Athanasios Moulakis, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Machiavelli on Growth as an End"
William Connell, Seton Hall University
"Voegelin's Interpretation of Machiavelli's Castruccio Castracani"
Chaiwat Satha-Anand, Thammasat University, Bangkok
Disc: John von Heyking, University of Calgary
Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr., Harvard University
Panel 3. Voegelin's Science of Human Affairs and German Geisteswissenschaft
Chair: Gerald Day, McMaster University
Papers:
"History as Horizon: Eric Voegelin's Philosophical Wissenschaft"
Thomas Hollweck, University of Colorado
"Eric Voegelin and Karl Jaspers on History"
Harald Bergbauer, University of Augsburg
"Social Science and Salvation: Notes on one Branch of German Sociology"
William Petropulos, The British Council
"Recovering the Spiritual Science of Philosophical Anthropology: F.W.J. Schelling and Voegelin"
Gerald L. Day, McMaster University
Disc: Klaus Vondung, University of Siegen
Hans-Jörg Sigwart, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Panel 4. Philosophy, Science, and Modernity
Chair: Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
Papers:
"Eric Voegelin and Martin Heidegger as Critics of Modernity"
Arno Baruzzi, University of Augsburg
"The Phenomenology of Moral Life: The Retrieval of the Christian-humanism in the Work of Scheler, Hartmann, and Hildebrand"
Andreas A. M. Kinneging, University of Leiden
"Episteme: Reflections on Voegelin, Hegel, and Modernity"
Clarence Sills, Independent Scholar
Disc: Glenn Hughes, St. Mary's University, San Antonio
Edward Findlay, Louisiana State University
William Petropoulos, The British Council
Panel 5. Voegelin, the Great Reformation, and Its Aftermath: A Critical Assessment
Chair: Mark W. Sinnett, St. John's College, Annapolis
Papers:
"Voegelin the Faithless: Thoughts from Luther"
Joshua Mitchell, Georgetown University
"Was Eric Voegelin Fair to the Lutheran Reformation?"
Henrik Syse, International Peace Institute (PRIO), Norway & Asbjörn Bjornes, University of Oslo
"Calvin, Gnosis and Anti-Philosophy: Voegelin's Treatment of the Reformation"
Thomas W. Heilke, University of Kansas
"An Agnostic View of Voegelin's Gnostic Calvin"
William Stevenson, Calvin College
"History and Faith: Eric Voegelin and Historical Jesus Research"
Aaron D. Hoffman, Catholic University of America
Disc: David L. Morse, Duquesne University
William M. Thompson, Duquesne University
Panel 6. Roundtable on Eric Voegelin and the Foundations of Modern Political Science, by Barry Cooper (University of Missouri Press, 1999)
Chair: Jene M. Porter, University of Saskatchewan
Parts: Martin Palous, Charles University, Prague
Steven Ealy, Liberty Fund, Inc.
Michael Franz, Loyola College of Maryland
David Walsh, Catholic University of America
Walter J. Nicgorski, University of Notre Dame
Respondent: Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
Panel 7. Order and History, vol. 5, and the Scope of Noetic Science
Chair: Glenn Hughes, St. Mary's University, San Antonio
Papers:
"Implications for Education of Voegelin's 'In Search of Order'"
Thomas D'Evelyn, Providence College
"The Experience of History and Place: A Voegelinian Perspective"
Jack D. Elliott, Miss. Dept. of Archives and History
"Aristotle, Voegelin, and Noesis"
David D. Corey, Louisiana State University
"What is Noetic Science?"
Thomas J. McPartland, Kentucky State University
Disc: William M. Thompson, Duquesne University
Brian J. Braman, Boston College
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17th ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM, San Francisco, Calif., Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 2001.
Panel 1. Voegelin, Literature, and Philosophy
Chair: Margaret Hrezo, Radford University
Papers:
"Spirit and Power: Political Order in Dostoevsky and Nietzsche"
Todd Meyers, University of Phoenix,
"Bedeviled by Boredom: A Theory of Consciousness in Dostoevsky's Possessed"
Richard Avramenko, Georgetown University,
"The Poetic Core of Eric Voegelin"
Max Arnott, Independent Scholar
"Voegelin and Michael Polanyi on the Relationship Between Epistemology and Politics"
Mark Mitchell, Georgetown University
Discussants: Steve Ealy, Liberty Fund
Gilbert Weiss, University of Vienna
Hans-Jörg Sigwart, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Panel 2. Medieval Theory, Ideology and Modern Political Philosophy
Chair: Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
Papers:
"Nicholas of Cusa and the Grounds of Toleration"
John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge
"The Political Thought of Joachim de Fiore"
Matthias Riedl, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
"'Entzauberung' and 'Verzauberung:' Some Problems of the Concept of Immanentization"
Govert J. Buijs, Free University of Amsterdam
"Voegelin and the Political"
Jürgen Gebhardt, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Discussants: Todd Breyfogle, University of Denver
Peter von Sivers, University of Utah
Tilo Schabert, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Stephen Varvis, Fresno Pacific University
Panel 3. Voegelin on Plato and Aristotle
Co-Chairs: Dante Germino, University of Amsterdam &
James M. Rhodes, Marquette University
Papers:
"Voegelin's Theory of Interpretation as Applied to Plato and Aristotle"
Dante Germino, University of Amsterdam
"An Old Obligation"
James M. Rhodes, Marquette University
"The Erotics of Recognition in Plato"
Zdravko Planinc, McMaster University
"Plato, the Prophet"
Tilo Schabert, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
"Voegelin's Aristotle and Conservative Reform"
Timothy Collins, University of North Alabama
Discussants: George Klosko, University of Virginia
Dietmar Herz, University of Erfurt
James L. Wiser, University of San Francisco
Panel 4. Voegelin and the Pre-Socratics
Chair: Richard G. Geldard, Yeshiva University
Papers:
"Voegelin, the Pre-Socratics, and the Noetic Quest"
Richard Geldard, Yeshiva University
"Hesiod as Precursor of the Pre-Socratic Philosophers"
Richard Moorton, Connecticut College
"The Pre-Socratics: Dynamics and Psychological Implications of the Leap in Being"
David I. Tresan, Independent Scholar
Discussants: Kenneth Quandt, Independent Scholar
Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution
Thomas J. McPartland, Kentucky State University
Panel 5. Ethics and the Law
Chair: Andreas A. M. Kinneging, University of Leiden
Papers:
"Voegelin's Conception of the Moral Order"
Andreas A. M. Kinneging, University of Leiden
"Comparing Voegelin's 'Representation' and the Constitutional Lawyer's 'Interpretation'"
Lewis H. LaRue, Washington & Lee University
"Voegelin and Constitutionalism,"
Paul B. Cliteur, University of Leiden
"Thoughts on Voegelin's The Nature of the Law"
Patrick H. Martin, Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University,
Discussants: Patrick B. Brown, Seattle University
David J. Walsh, Catholic University of America
Panel 6. Perspectives on Hitler, National Socialism, and the Holocaust
Chair: Marie Baird, Duquesne University
Papers:
"Anamnesis and the Gray Zone: A Voegelinian Meditation on Holocaust Survival"
Marie Baird, Duquesne University
"National Socialism as a Political Religion"
Michael Burleigh, Washington and Lee University
"'Heidegger and the Germans': Voegelin on Ontotheology and Nazism"
Oona Ajzenstat, University of Toronto
"Voegelin's Analysis of Nazism in the Light of Recent Historical Research"
Clifford F. Porter, Defense Language Institute and Presidio of Monterey
Discussants: Klaus Vondung, University of Siegen
Brendan Purcell, University College Dublin
Panel 7. Gnosticism and Varieties of Modernity
Chair: Stephen A. McKnight, University of Florida
Papers:
"Voegelin's View of Gnosticism and Modernity in Two Keynote Lectures from 1971 and 1975"
Stephen A. McKnight, University of Florida
"'Gnosis' in Eric Voegelin's Philosophy"
Stefan Rossbach, University of Kent at Canterbury
"Experience and Symbolization in Qumran: Are There Modern Equivalences?"
Mark W. Sinnett, St. John's College, Annapolis
"Clarity Before Currency: Gnosticism and the Analysis of Spiritual Disorder"
Michael G. Franz, Loyola College of Maryland
Discussants: Thomas Heilke, University of Kansas
Klaus Vondung, University of Siegen
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18TH ANNUAL MEETING, Boston, Aug. 29 - Sept. 1, 2002
Panel 1. The Mythic Horizon: Eric Voegelin and Hans Jonas on Religion,
Myth and Truth
Chair: Glenn Hughes, St. Mary's University (San Antonio)
Papers:"Narrative and Conversion"
Frederick Lawrence, Boston College
"Mythic Truth and the Art of Science"
David J. Levy, Middlesex University
"Myth, Aberrant Myth, and Ambient Vision"
Glenn Hughes, St. Mary's University (San Antonio)
Disc.: Thomas J. McPartland, Whitney Young College, Kentucky State University
Brendan Purcell, University College, Dublin
Panel 2. How Voegelin, Strauss and Oakeshott Use Hobbes to
Understand Modernity
Chair: Timothy Fuller, Colorado College
Papers: "Coming to Terms with Hobbes and Modernity"
Nicholas Capaldi, University of Tulsa
"Three Views of Leviathan: Oakeshott, Strauss, Voegelin"
W. John Coats, Connecticut College
"Oakeshott and Voegelin on Hobbes: Gnostic but not Rationalist?"
Elizabeth C. Corey, Louisiana State University
"A Comparison and Evaluation of Interpretation: Voegelin and Strauss on Thomas
Hobbes"
Jeremy Mhire, Louisiana State University
Panel 3. Hermeneutics, Interpretation and Science in Political Philosophy
Chair: TBA
Papers:
"Hermeneutics and Political theory: Voegelin and Gadamer"
Jürgen Gebhardt, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
"Reading Voegelin: A Deconstructionist Perspective"
Thomas Hollweck, University of Colorado-Boulder
"Interpreting Plato: Gadamer versus Voegelin"
Andreas Kinneging, University of Amsterdam
Disc.: Athanasios Moulakis, Virginia Tech University
Panel 4. Liberal Democracy, Secularization, and "the end of metaphysics"
Chair: Horst Mewes, University of Colorado
Papers: "Secularization and the foundations of modern liberal democracy"
Horst Mewes, University of Colorado
"The Question of Transcendence in a Secularizing Age."
Timothy Fuller, Colorado College
"Liberal Democracy and political theology: Voegelin vs. Carl Schmitt"
Hans-Joerg Sigwart, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
"Descartes: foundations of modernity and liberal democracy."
Michael Gillespie, Duke University
Disc.: Juergen Gebhardt, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Panel 5. "The Consciousness of the Storyteller:" Eric Voegelin and Literary
Criticism
Chair: Timothy Hoye, Texas Woman's University
Papers: "Une Manière Peinée? Emplotment, Storytelling, and Consciousness
in LaClos' Les
Liaisons dangereuses"
Polly Detels, Texas A&M University-Commerce
"`An exceedingly ordinary thing:' History and Consciousness in A Book of
Memories by
Peter Nadas and Anamnesis by Eric Voegelin"
Charles Embry, Texas A & M University-Commerce
"Order and Estrangement in Meiji Japan: Reservoirs of Reality in the
Literary Consciousness
of Natsume Soseki"
Timothy Hoye, Texas Woman's University
"`In-Between' Cultures: Voegelin, Bhabha, and the Temporality of
the Political"
Randy LeBlanc, University of Texas at Tyler
Disc.: Peter A Petrakis, Southeastern Louisiana University
Benjamin L. Wren, Loyola University in New Orleans
Panel 6. Civilization, Culture and World Order
Chair: Greg Russell, University of Oklahoma
Papers: "Politics Among Civilizations"
David Clinton, Tulane University
"Civilization and International Order: The Ethnonational Dimension in the
Arab_Israeli Conflict"
Shmuel Sandler, Bar-Ilan University
"Civilization as Paradigm: An Inquiry into the Hermeneutics of
Conflict"
Mark Gismondi, Northwest Nazarene University
"Civilizational Orders and Disorders"
Michael Franz, Loyola College of Maryland
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Disc.: Michael Desch, University of Kentucky
Timothy J. Lomperis, Saint Louis University
Panel 7. Modernity and Themes in Political Theory
Chair: Jene M Porter, University of Saskatchewan
Papers: "What is Modernity and How did it Arise?"
Jene M. Porter, University of Saskatchewan
"Reflections on the Transparence of the Modern World"
David J. Walsh, Catholic University of America
"On Some Sources of Modernity: Eschatology, Asceticism,
Gnosticism"
Arpad Szakolczai, University College Cork
"Reflections on Voegelin's Philosophy of History
and on Central Europe after Communism"
Martin Palous, Charles University
Disc.: Michael P. Federici, Mercyhurst College
John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge
Maben Walter Poirier, Concordia University
Panel 8. Voegelin and Christianity: A Roundtable
Chair: Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution & Peace
Parts.: Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
Glenn Hughes, Saint Mary's University (San Antonio)
Frederick Wagner, Independent Scholar
Thomas D'Evelyn, Brown Learning Community
Theodore R. Weber, Emory University
Panel 9. Conflict, History, and Political Theory
Chair: Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
Papers: "Voegelin's Early Unpublished Writings: Some Enduring Themes"
William Petropulos, Independent Scholar
"Niemeyer and Voegelin on Tolerable and Intolerable Evil"
Michael Henry, St. John's University
"Memory and Conflict in Augustine, Dante, and Voegelin"
Henrik Syse, International Peace Research Institute (PRIO) and
Asbjörn Bjornes, University of Oslo
"Voegelin's Account of Tragedy in the New World Disorder"
Paul Corey, McMaster University
Disc.: Jennifer K. Thompson, Liberty Fund
Lee Trepanier, Southern Utah University
Peter McMylor, University of Manchester
Panel 10. Literary and Psychological Dimensions of Political Philosophy
Saturday, Aug. 31, 3:30 p.m.
Chair: Steven Ealy, Liberty Fund
Papers: "Compactness, Poetic Ambiguity, and the Equivalences of
Experience"
Steven Ealy, Liberty Fund
"Voegelin as a Psychopathologist"
Robert S. Seiler, Jr., Independent Scholar
"Voegelinian Themes in Henrik Ibsen"
Tor Richardsen, Independent Scholar and
Henrik Syse, International Peace Institute (PRIO)
"Reading Plato: The Digression in Seventh Letter"
John Baltes, Louisiana State University
Disc.: Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
Richard G. Avramenko, Georgetown University
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