Eric Voegelin Society Meeting 2007
23rd Annual International Meeting
Chicago, Aug.30-Sept. 2, 2007
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Organizer: Prof. Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
Secretary, Eric Voegelin Society
Director, Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies
Panel 1. The Relevance of Plato
Chair: Zdravko Planinc, McMaster University
Papers:
“The Problem of Political Virtue in Plato’s Protagoras”
Eric Petrie, James Madison College, Michigan State University
“The Drama of the Politikos”
James Rhodes, Marquette University
“Equivalences of Experience and Symbolization in Plato and Homer”
Zdravko Planinc, McMaster University
Disc: Ron Srigley, Thorneloe University
Steve McCarl, University of Denver
Jeremy Mhire, University of Virginia
Panel 2. Equivalences of Symbolization-Experience in China?
Chair: James Wiser, University of San Francisco
Papers:
“Equivalences of Experience and Symbolization in Plato and Homer”
- Barret Dolph, Pegasus International Schools
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“Ambiguity and the Concern with Language in the Traditions of Chinese Buddhist Philosophy”
Hans-Rudolf Kantor, Huafan University
“Sagehood as Spiritual Rhetoric: The Concept of Language in Confucianism”
Kai Marchal, Huafan University
Disc.: Barret Dolph, Pegasus International Schools
Timothy Hoye, Texas Woman’s University
Panel 3. Scientism, Westernization, and Liberty in Chinese Politics
Chair: Michael Franz, Loyola College of Maryland
Papers:
“Scientism and the Dogmatics of Modernity”
David Whitney, Louisiana State University
Dept. of Political Science
“God and the Essence of Liberty: A Preliminary Inquiry into the History of Freedom”
Hong Xu, Asian Business Leaders Magazine (Beijing)
“Westernization: concepts, discourses, and life styles”
HUANG Kuan-Min, Huafan University
Disc.: Robert J. Cihak, M. D., independent scholar
Yu Nam Kim, Dankook University
Xu Zhiyue, Fudan University
John Danford, Loyola University Chicago
Panel 4. The Authority of Truth: Eric Voegelin’s Hitler and the Germans
Chair: Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
Papers.:
“Personal and Social Corruption and the Philosopher’s Authority”
Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
“Can a Philosopher be a Prophetic Witness to the Truth?”
Brendan Purcell, University College Dublin
“Hitler and the Germans and the Loss of Christian Truth”
Michael Henry, St. Johns University
“Voegelin’s Use of Musil’s Concept of ‘Intelligent Stupidity’ ”
Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University San Antonio
“Voegelin’s Hitler and the Germans Revisited”
Joseph Prud’homme, Villanova University
joseph.prudhomme@villanova.edu
“The Philosopher’s Vocation: Voegelin, Francis Graham Wilson, and the Theophanic”
- Lee Cheek, Brewton-Parker College
Disc.: Thomas Hollweck, University of Colorado–Boulder
Peter von Sivers, University of Utah
Panel 5. Civil Theology of the American Founding
Chair: Glenn Moots, Northwood University
gmmoots@concentric.net and moots@northwood.edu
Papers:
“The Connecticut Wits and the Formation of America’s Messianic Destiny”
Richard Gamble, Hillsdale College
“George Washington’s Civil Religion”
Jeffry Morrison, Regent University
“All Such Disobedience is Lawful and Glorious: Rational Dissent and Resistance Theory in Jonathan Mayhew’s Civil Theology”
John Patrick Mullins, Saginaw Valley State University
“Revolutionary-era America: Was it Enlightened or Protestant? Does it Matter”
Barry Shain, Colgate University
Disc.: Scott Segrest, Liberty Fund, Inc.
ssegrest@libertyfund.org
Glenn Moots, Northwood University
gmmoots@concentric.net and moots@northwood.edu
Panel 6. Mysticism, Philosophy, and Holocaust Studies
Chair: Macon Bozcek, John Carroll University
Papers:
“Faith and Reason Reconsidered”
Macon Bozcek, John Carroll University
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“Voegelin and Bonhoeffer: History, Transcendence and the Holocaust”
Jeremiah Russell, Louisiana State University
“Heaven in Hell: A Voegelinian Exploration of the Life and Writings of Etty Hillesum”
Meins G. S. Coetsier, University of Ghent
“The Space of Politics: Voegelin, Arendt, and Wolin Compared”
Thomas Heilke, Kansas University
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Disc.: Marie Baird, Duquesne University
John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge
Panel 7. Good and Evil in Politics, Experience, and Political Theory
Chair: David Walsh, Catholic University of America
Papers:
“Voegelin and Hume on Philosophical Pathology”
Kevin S. Honeycutt, Emory University
“Was Eric Voegelin the Anti-Heidegger?”
William T. Tete, Loyola University of New Orleans
“Voegelin’s Intellectual Biography: Gleanings from His Correspondence”
Thomas Hollweck, University of Colorado–Boulder
Disc.: William Miller,Marymount University
Jodi Bruhn, Independent Scholar
John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge
Panel 8. Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin: Rival Visions of Politics and Reality
Chair: Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
Papers:
“The Catholic Moment in the Political Philosophy of Leo Strauss”
James R. Stoner, Louisiana State University
“Why Leo Strauss is Not an Aristotelian: An Exploratory Study”
Michael Zuckert, University of Notre Dame
“Arendt’s politics of ‘worldliness’ and its critique by Strauss and Voegelin”
Horst Mewes, University of Colorado at Boulder
“Voegelin, Strauss, and Arendt on: What is Political Philosophy”
Timothy Fuller, Colorado College
Disc.: Martin Palouš, Charles University
Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
Henrik Syse, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Panel 9. Voegelin’s Quandary: Faith in Search of Understanding or Understanding in Search of Faith?
Chair: Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University–San Antonio
Papers:
“Eric Voegelin: Understanding in Search of Faith?”
Stefan Rossbach, University of Kent
“Faith Seeking Understanding”
Frederick Lawrence, Boston College
Disc.: Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University–San Antonio
Thomas McPartland, Kentucky State University
Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
Panel 10. Philosophies of History and Theories of Politics
Chair: Thomas McPartland, Kentucky State University
“The (Im)possibility of Politics: Voegelin and Kierkegaard”
Eugen L. Nagy, Catholic University of America
“Voegelin and Levinas”
Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
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“Albert Camus on the Modern Predicament”
Ron Srigley, Thornloe University
“Giambattista Vico and Eric Voegelin on History and Politics”
Giuseppe Ballacci, University of Madrid
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Disc.: Marie Baird, Duquesne University
Craig Hanks, Texas State University
Oana Cimpean, Louisiana State University