Eric Voegelin Society Meeting 2003

Philadelphia, PA, August 28-31, 2003

99^th APSA Annual Meeting, 19^th EVS Annual International Meeting

Organizer: Ellis Sandoz , Louisiana State University

Program Summary

Panel 1. Science, Scientism, and Voegelin’s New Science

Panel 2. Ecumenism, Empire, and Ethnicity in Politics

Panel 3. Philosophy of Consciousness and Voegelin’s Anamnesis

Panel 4. Voegelin’s View of Modern Politics: Rule of Law and Its 20th century Destruction

Panel 5. Plato’s Symposium

Panel 6. Voegelin and the Liberal Arts: Textual Sources and Literary Parallels

Panel 7. Politics and Transcendence

Program Detail – 7 panels

Panel 1. Science, Scientism, and Voegelin’s New Science

Chair: Martin Pagnan, Independent Scholar

Papers:

“Debate in an Age of Scientism”– Martin Pagnan, Independent Scholar

“The Consciousness of the Inquirer” – Kenneth Quandt, Independent Scholar

“Western Scientific Pioneers on Middle Eastern Shoulders: From Ibn al-Shatir and al-Khwarizmi to Copernicus and Galileo” – Peter von Sivers, University of Utah

“Human Origins in the Light of Evolutionary Theory”- Brendan Purcell, University College Dublin

Disc.:

William McClain, Sattre Press

Alan I. Baily, Louisiana State University

David J. Walsh, Catholic University of America

Panel 2. Ecumenism, Empire, and Ethnicity in Politics

Chair: Michael Franz, Loyola College of Maryland

Papers:

“Elemental and Existential Representation in the Constituting of Modern Japan” -Timothy Hoye, Texas Woman’s University

“Getting Islam Straight” – Charles Butterworth, University of Maryland

“What is (un) Islamic about Islamic Politics?”– Nelly Lahoud, Cambridge University

“Ethnicity Issues in Basque Separatism”– William Thompson-Uberuaga, Duquesne University

Disc.:

Gregory Russell, University of Oklahoma

Marie Baird, Duquesne University

Panel 3. Philosophy of Consciousness and Voegelin’s Anamnesis

Chair: David Walsh, Catholic University of America

Papers:

“Child’s Play and Philosophy: Voegelin’s Anamnestic Experiments” – Matthew Reynolds, Columbia University

“Remembrance of Things Past: Eric Voegelin and Marcel Proust” – T. John Jamieson, Independent Scholar

“Voegelin’s Theory of Consciousness in Relation to the Work of Loren Eisley and Michael Polanyi” – Charles R. Embry, Texas A & M – Commerce

“Voegelin’s Philosophy of Consciousness as a Theory of Experience” – Hans-Jorg Sigwart, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Disc.:

John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge

Paul Caringella, Stanford University

Panel 4. Voegelin’s View of Modern Politics: Rule of Law and Its 20th century Destruction

Chair: Timothy Fuller, Colorado College

Papers:

“Reflections on Voegelin on the Nature of Law”– Timothy Fuller, Colorado College

“Totalitarianism and Radical Modernity in Voegelin’s Philosophy” – Horst Mewes, University of Colorado-Boulder

“The Concept of the Political Revisited” – Jürgen Gebhardt, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

The Rule of Law and Common Sense: Returning Voegelin to Central Europe– Martin Palouš, Charles University, Prague

Disc.:

Barry Cooper, University of Calgary

Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University

Panel 5. Plato’s Symposium

Chair: Barry Cooper, University of Calgary

Papers:

“Aristophanes in the Symposium” – Eric Petrie, Michigan State University

“Voegelin, Diotima, and the Metaxy”– James Rhodes, Marquette University

“Homeric Imagery in the Symposium” – Zdravko Planinc, McMaster University

Disc.:

Jeremy Mhire, Louisiana State University

John David Baltes, University of Virginia

Panel 6. Voegelin and the Liberal Arts: Textual Sources and Literary Parallels

Chair: Thomas Hollweck, University of Colorado-Boulder

Papers:

“The Ethics of Immortalizing: Aristotle’s Virtues, St. Paul’s Faith, and Voegelin’s Historiography” – Gerald Day, Independent Scholar

“Saeculum Senescens: Voegelin, Beckett, and the Age of Snility” – Paul Corey, McMaster University

“Eric Voegelin’s Camus: The Limitations of Greek Myth in The Rebel” – Ron Srigley, University of Sudbury

“The Pneumopathology of the Puritan: Adaptations of Hooker by Voegelin and Shakespeare” – Jeff Tessier, McMaster University

“Voegelin, Derrida, and Foucault on Language, Consciousness and Political Symbols” – Lee Trepanier, Southern Utah University

Disc.:

Thomas Heilke, University of Kansas

Steve Ealy, Liberty Fund

Panel 7. Politics and Transcendence

Chair: Thomas McPartland, Kentucky State University

Papers:

“Voegelin’s Account of Phronesis” – David Corey, Baylor University

“The Question of Civil Theology” – Michael D. Henry, St. John’s University

“Does Immanentization Distort Politics? Voegelin’s Critique of Hobbes”– Elizabeth Campbell Corey, Louisiana State University

“Civilization, Faith, and Reason: What is Political Science?” – Scott Segrest, Baylor University

Disc.:

Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University

Clinton B. Barron, Louisiana State University