Boston,
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24th EVS Annual International Meeting
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Program Summary
Panel 1.
Panel 2.
Voegelin and
the Liberal Political Order
Panel 3.
Politics Unto
Creativity: Eric Voegelin Applied
Panel 4.
Mysticism and
Philosophy in Voegelin’s Work
Panel 5 Resistance to
Tyrants is Obedience to God: Religion and Revolution Revisited
Panel 6.
Three Poets
and a Novelist: Voegelinian Readings of Literature
Panel 7.
Eric Voegelin
and Modern European Continental Thought
Panel 8.
Reason and
Revelation in Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin
Panel 9.
Panel 10.
Political Theory in East Asian Context: Ancient and Modern
Perspectives
PROGRAM DETAIL -
10 panels
Panel
1.
Chair:
Greg Russell, University of
Papers:
The Surprising M. Tocqueville
The Bush Doctrine:
T
Strands of Dissent in
Disc.:
Christopher Layne,
Daniel G. Lang,
Panel 2. Voegelin and the Liberal Political Order
Chair:
David Walsh,
Papers:
Peace and Public Truth: Voegelin and
Hobbes
Voegelin, Locke, and the Anglo-Saxon Tradition
Voegelin and the Czech Debate on the Liberal Political Order
Liberty, Liberalism, and Political Representation: The
Canadian Experience
Disc:
David
Walsh, The
Steven J. Brust, The
Horst Mewes, University of
Colorado–Boulder
Panel. 3. Politics Unto Creativity: Eric Voegelin Applied
Chair:
Tilo Schabert, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Papers:
Toward a “Presidential” European Commission? Creativity of Power &
Political Leadership in the Barroso Commission
Between Wisdom and Knowledge: The Politics of Creativity in a
Post-Communist World
Using the Backstairs: Dissimulation and Effective Government
Theory and Political Practice in Voegelin and His Critics
Disc:
Steven F. McGuire,
Matthew Connell,
Michael Franz,
Panel 4. Mysticism and Philosophy in Voegelin’s Work
Chair:
Ellis Sandoz,
Papers:
Is War Natural to the Human Condition?
Voegelinian and Platonic Reflections on Violence, Virtue and Wrongdoing
- Henrik Syse, Peace
Research Institute
Meister Eckhart and Voegelin’s Mystic Philosophy:The
Importance of Mystical Theology to Social Order
- Macon
Boczek,
The Relationship between Mysticism and Science in Voegelin's work -
William Petropulos, Eric Voegelin Archiv–Munich
God the Creative Ground of Existence in Voegelin, Etty Hillesum &
Martin Buber: A Response to Dawkins’ The God
Delusion
Disc:
Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University–San Antonio;
Marie Baird,
Thomas A. Hollweck, University of Colorado–Boulder
Brendan Purcell, University College Dublin
Panel
5. Resistance to
Tyrants is Obedience to God–Religion & Revolution Revisited
Chair:
Glenn A. Moots,
Papers:
Acquiescence or Resistance
to Tyranny? A Question of Cosmological or Historical Forms of Order
Cicero’s Republic and Christian Arguments for Rebellion against
Tyrants
Reformed Theology
and the American Founding: The Case of Roger
Sherman
- Mark Hall,
John
Witherspoon, Resistance, and Revolution: “Rebellion
to Tyrants [or Ge
Disc.:
Glenn A. Moots,
Barry
Shain,
Panel 6. Three Poets and a Novelist: Voegelinian Readings of Literature
Chair:
Charles R. Embry,
Papers:
Lawrence
and the Strength of Love: A Voegelinian Reading - Rodney Kilcup, Independent
Scholar
The Laboratory of Anamnesis: The Symbolist Poet Paul Valéry in Search
of Consciousness
The Refractory Universe of Elizabeth Bishop:
Voegelin's Theory of Consciousness and
Poetic Vision
The Tension of the Metaxy in Emily Dickinson's Poetry
Disc:
Paul Corey, McMaster
Timothy Hoye, Texas Woman’s University
Panel 7. Eric Voegelin and Modern European Continental Thought
Chair:
Paul Caringella,
Papers:
“Out of such crooked wood”: How Eric
Voegelin Read Immanuel Kant
Voegelin and Schelling on Freedom and
the Order of Existence
Derrida’s
Escape from Language and Metaphysics
Kierkegaard and Voegelin: Consciousness and History
Disc:
Rouven J.
Steeves,
Michael D. Henry,
Panel 8. Reason and Revelation in Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin
Chair:
Timothy Fuller,
Papers:
Reason
and Revelation in the Work of Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin
- Barry Cooper,
A Thomistic
and Tocquevillean View of Strauss on Reason and Revelation
Leo
Strauss's and Eric Voegelin's Philosophical Approach to the Bible
Man the Questioner: Voegelin's Idea of Religious Experience
Disc.:
Thomas
McPartland,
Angela
Miceli,
Panel
9.
Chair:
Barret Dolph, Pegasus
International Schools–Taipei
Papers:
Symbolic Forms, Political Ideas and the
Encounter of Civilizations
Eric
Voegelin’s Reception in
China’s Pragmatic Nationalism
and Its Foreign Policy Implications - Suisheng Zhao,
Disc.:
Timothy Fuller,
Klaus
Vondung,
Panel
10. Political Theory in
the East Asian Context: Ancient
and Modern Perspectives
Chair:
Timothy Hoye, Texas Woman’s University
Papers:
Politics and Theory in
Postwar
Japan: The Contributions of Masao
Maruyama
"The
Political Thought of Asia: A Contextual Pedagogical Essay" - Timothy J. Lomperis,
Confucianism
and Democracy
Eric Voegelin’s Thought on Civil Theology
and Its Potential in Reinterpreting Some Aspects of Confucius’ Political
Thought
Disc.:
Samah
Elhajibrahim,
Thomas D’Evelyn,