Eric Voegelin Society Meeting 2000
Washington, D.C. , September 1-2, 2000
96th APSA Annual Meeting, 16th EVS Annual International Meeting
Organizer: Ellis Sandoz , Louisiana State University
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Program Summary
Panel 1 : Representation, Ethics, and Sources of Order in the Thought of Eric Voegelin, Paul Ricouer, Emmanuel Levinas, Gilles Deleuze, and Xavier Zubiri
Panel 2 : Voegelin and the Study of Machiavelli
Panel 3 :Voegelin’s Science of Human Affairs and German Geisteswissenschaft
Panel 4 : Philosophy, Science, and Modernity
Panel 5 : Voegelin, the Great Reformation, and Its Aftermath: A Critical Assessment
Panel 6 :Roundtable on Eric Voegelin and the Foundations of Modern Political Science, by Barry Cooper (University of Missouri Press, 1999)
Panel 7 : Order and History , vol. 5, and the Scope of “Noetic Science”
Program Details – 7 panels
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-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 Lethbridge
Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr., Harvard University
Panel 3 :Voegelin’s Science of Human Affairs and German Geisteswissenschaft
Chairs: Gerald Day, McMaster University & Harald Bergbauer, Munich School of Politics
Papers:
“History as Horizon: Eric Voegelin’s Philosophical Wissenschaft” – Thomas Hollweck, University of Colorado
“Eric Voegelin and Karl Jaspers on History” – Harald Bergbauer, Munich School of Politics
“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:
“Voegelin and Heidegger as Critics of Modernity” – Michael D. Henry, St. John’s University
“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, Boston College
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)BNorway & 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
Resp: 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:
“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