Eric Voegelin Society Meeting 2005
Washington, D. C. , September 1-4, 2005
101st APSA Annual Meeting, 21st EVS Annual International Meeting
Organizer: Ellis Sandoz , Louisiana State University
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Program Summary
Panel 1. The Evocation of Experience: Poetry and Eric Voegelin’s Theory of Symbolization
Panel 2: Political Theory, Mysticism and Philosophy
Panel 3. Voegelin and Heidegger on the Human Condition: Politics and Being
Panel 4. Is Terrorism a “New Political Religion”? The War and Barry Cooper’s Theory
Panel 5. Dimensions of Voegelin’s Philosophy and Its Reception
Panel 6: Religion, Politics, and the Human Condition
Panel 7. Religion, Education and the Shaping of Citizens in Locke [Co-sponsored by APSA, Division: 2. Foundations of Political Theory ]
Panel 8. The Aristotelian Revival and the Path to Religious Toleration [Co-sponsored by APSA, Division: 2. Foundations of Political Theory ]
PROGRAM DETAIL – 8 panels
Panel 1. The Evocation of Experience: Poetry and Eric Voegelin’s Theory of Symbolization
Chair: Charles R. Embry, Texas A & M University-Commerce
Papers:
“A Pattern of Timeless Moments: Existence and History in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets” – Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University at San Antonio, Texas
“The Lyric Cosmion: Eric Voegelin and the Semiotics of Yuri Lotman” – Robert McMahon, Louisiana State University
“‘A poem should not mean/But be’: A Reading of Poems” – Diane Quaid, Independent Scholar and Actress
“Glory is My Work”: Mary Oliver’s Search for Order – Robert S. Seiler, Jr., Independent Scholar
Disc:
Polly Detels, Texas A & M University-Commerce
Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Panel 2: Political Theory, Mysticism and Philosophy
Chair: Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
Papers:
” The Paradox of Consciousness in Augustine’s Confessions: A Voegelinian Reading” – Michael Henry, St. John’s University
“Mysticism and the Ludic: A Voegelinian Meditation on the Areopagite and His Heirs” – Marie Baird, Duquesne University
“Voegelin and Huizinga on Play and Political Theory” – William Thompson-Uberuaga, Duquesne University
“The Non-dogmatic, Experiential Unfolding of Order: Some Preliminary Reflections” – Rouven J. Steeves, United States Air Force Academy
Disc:
John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge
James V. Schall, Georgetown University
Panel 3. Voegelin and Heidegger on the Human Condition: Politics and Being
Chair: Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University–San Antonio
Papers:
“Voegelin, Heidegger, and the Configuration of Historical Ontology”– Paul Kidder, Seattle University
“Rights After Heidegger: Phenomenologies/ Hermeneutics of the Event in Heidegger, Voegelin, Badiou, and Marion” – William Paul Simmons, Arizona State University–West
“Heidegger and Voegelin on Augustine ” – Frederick Lawrence, Boston College
“Heidegger, Voegelin, and the Human Predicament: A Case Study”– Jürgen Gebhardt, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Disc:
Thomas McPartland, Kentucky State University
Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame
Craig Hanks, Texas State University
Panel 4. Is Terrorism a “New Political Religion”? The War and Barry Cooper’s Theory
Chair: Michael Franz, Loyola College–Maryland
Papers:
“Just War, the Ethics of Exceptions, and the Fight Against Terrorism” – Henrik Syse, Journal of Peace Research (PRIO)
“‘There is No Right to be Stupid’: A Voegelinian Analysis of Islamist Terrorism with Reference to the ‘Elements of Reality'” – Celestino Perez, Jr., United States Military Academy
“Spiritual Disorder in Modern Terrorism: On Barry Cooper’s New Political Religions” – Michael Franz, Loyola College of Maryland
“Terrorism and the American Constitutional Order” – Richard Harmon Drew, University of Virginia
Disc:
Jeremy Mhire, Louisiana State University
Robert Reilly, U.S. Dept. of Defense
Respondent:
Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
Panel 5. Dimensions of Voegelin’s Philosophy and Its Reception
Chair: David Walsh, Catholic University of America
Papers:
“Eric Voegelin in Paris : The Critical Response since 1994” – David Palmieri, University of Montreal
“The Suicide of Thought: Reflections on Voegelin and Walker Percy” – Grant Kaplan, Loyola University of New Orleans
“Philosophical Anthropology: Voegelin’s Debt to Max Scheler” Nicoletta Stradaioli, University of Perugia
Disc.:
Steve Ealy, Liberty Fund, Inc.
Lee Trepanier, Saginaw Valley State University
Panel 6: Religion, Politics, and the Human Condition
Chair: Horst Mewes, University of Colorado–Boulder
Papers:
“The function of Religion in Tocqueville’s Theory of Democracy”– Horst Mewes, University of Colorado–Boulder
“Mysticism in Contemporary Islamic Political Thought: Abdolkarim and Orhan Pamuk – John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge
“In search of the Divine: Philosophy and the Eleusinian Mysteries in Plato’s Symposium “ – Steven McGuire, Catholic University of America
“Some Principles of Voegelinian Hermeneutics: Eric Voegelin´s Reading of Jean Bodin” – Hans-Jörg Sigwart, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Disc.:
Timothy Fuller, Colorado College
Thomas A. Hollweck, University of Colorado-Boulder
- Lee Cheek, Brewton-Parker College
Panel 7. Religion, Education and the Shaping of Citizens in Locke [Co-sponsored by APSA, Division: 2. Foundations of Political Theory ]
Chair: Paul E. Sigmund, Princeton University
Papers:
“Religion, Soulcraft, and Education in Locke’s Liberalism” – Dwight D. Allman, Baylor University
“The Moral and Rational Requirements of Locke’s Liberalism” – Steven P. Forde, University of North Texas
“Manifestly for the Good of the People”: Elections and Democratic Legitimacy in Locke’s Two Treatises – Greg Forster, Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation & Glenn Moots, Northwood University
Disc:
Victor Nuovo, Middlebury College
James R. Stoner, Jr., Louisiana State University
Panel 8. The Aristotelian Revival and the Path to Religious Toleration [Co-sponsored by APSA, Division: 2. Foundations of Political Theory ]
Chair: Colleen Sheehan, Villanova University
Papers:
“John Donne and the Translation of Aristotle’s Politics Into English” – James R. Stoner, Jr., Louisiana State University
“Aristotelian Moderation as an Alternative to Liberal Toleration” – Peter Busch, Villanova University
“Hobbes and Religious Toleration” –Edwin Curley, University of Michigan
“A substantially revised version of this paper is forthcoming in A CRITICAL COMPANION TO HOBBES’ LEVATHIAN, ed. by Patricia Springbord, to be published by Cambridge University Press.”
Disc:
Robert Kraynak, Colgate University
Matthias Riedl, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg