Eric Voegelin Society Meeting 2002
Boston, MA, Auguest 29 – September 1, 2002
98th APSA Annual Meeting, 18th EVS Annual International Meeting
Organizer: Ellis Sandoz , Louisiana State University
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Program Summary
Panel 1. The Mythic Horizon: Eric Voegelin and Hans Jonas on Religion, Myth and Truth
Panel 2. How Voegelin, Strauss and Oakeshott Use Hobbes to Understand Modernity
Panel 3. Hermeneutics, Interpretation and Science in Political Philosophy
Panel 4. Liberal Democracy, Secularization, and “the end of metaphysics”
Panel 5. “The Consciousness of the Storyteller:” Eric Voegelin and Literary Criticism
Panel 6. Civilization, Culture and World Order
Panel 7. Modernity and Themes in Political Theory
Panel 8. Voegelin and Christianity: A Roundtable
Panel 9. Conflict, History, and Political theory
Panel 10. Literary and Psychological Dimensions of Political Philosophy
Program Details – 10 panels
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:
“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: Clarence Sills, Independent Scholar
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
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
Tom D’Evelyn, Brown Learning C’ommunity
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
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 Palouš, 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
The Meaning of “Demonic Nothingness” – 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 Thompson, Liberty Fund
Lee Trepanier, Southern Utah University
Peter McMylor, University of Manchester
Panel 10. Literary and Psychological Dimensions of Political Philosophy
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