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Eric Voegelin Society Meeting 2001

ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY 2001

San Francisco, CA, August 31 - September 2, 2001

97th APSA Annual Meeting, 17th EVS Annual International Meeting

Organizer: Ellis Sandoz , Louisiana State University  

Posted by permission of the respective authors. Copyright 2001. 

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Program Summary

 

Panel 1.  Voegelin, Literature, and Philosophy

 

Panel 2.  Medieval Theory and Modern Political Ideology

 

Panel 3.  Voegelin on Plato and Aristotle

 

Panel 4.  Voegelin and the Pre-Socratics

 

Panel 5.  Ethics and the Law

 

Panel 6.  Perspectives on Hitler, National Socialism, and the Holocaust

 

Panel 7.   Gnosticism and Varieties of Modernity

 

 

 

Program Details - 7 panels

Panel 1.  Voegelin, Literature, and Philosophy


Chair: Margaret Hrezo, Radford University

 

Papers:

 

"Spirit and Power: Political Order in Dostoevsky and Nietzsche" - Todd Meyers, University of Phoenix

    

"Bedeviled by Boredom: A Theory of Consciousness in Dostoevsky’s Possessed" - Richard Avramenko, Georgetown University

    

 "The Poetic Core of Eric Voegelin" - Max Arnott, Independent Scholar

   

"Voegelin and Michael Polanyi on the Relationship Between Epistemology and Politics" - Mark Mitchell, Georgetown University     

 

Discussants: 

 

Steve Ealy, Liberty Fund
Gilbert Weiss, University of Vienna
Hans-Jörg Sigwart, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

 

 

 

Panel 2.    Medieval Theory and Modern Political Ideology


Chair: Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University

 

Papers: 

 

"Nicholas of Cusa and the Grounds of Toleration" - John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge 

    

"The Political Thought of Joachim de Fiore" - Matthias Riedl, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 

    

"Entzauberung and Verzauberung: Some Problems of the Concept of Immanentization" - Govert J. Buijs, Free University of Amsterdam             

      

Discussants: 

 

Todd Breyfogle, University of Denver

Peter von Sivers, University of Utah
Tilo Schabert, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

 

 

 

Panel 3.     Voegelin on Plato and Aristotle

 

Co-Chairs: Dante Germino, University of Amsterdam & James M. Rhodes, Marquette University

 

Papers: 

 

"Voegelin’s Theory of Interpretation as Applied to Plato and Aristotle" - Dante Germino, University of Amsterdam 

                   

"An Old Obligation" - James M. Rhodes, Marquette University

    

"The Erotics of Recognition in Plato"  - Zdravko Planinc, McMaster University 

   

"Plato, the Prophet" - Tilo Schabert, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 

    

"Voegelin’s Aristotle and Conservative Reform" -Timothy Collins, University of North Alabama 

Discussants:  

 

George Klosko, University of Virginia
Dietmar Herz, University of Erfurt
James Wiser, San Francisco University

 

 

Panel 4.   Voegelin and the Pre-Socratics

Chair: Richard Geldard, Yeshiva University

 

Papers:

 

"Voegelin, the Pre-Socratics, and the Noetic Quest"  - Richard Geldard, Yeshiva University            

 

"Hesiod as Precursor of the Pre-Socratic Philosophers" - Richard Moorton, Connecticut College                            
    

Dynamics and Psychological Implications of the Leap in Being" - David I. Tresan, Independent Scholar, "The Pre-Socratics: 
                    

Discussants: 

 

Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University in San Antonio

 

 

Panel 5.   Ethics and the Law

Chair:  Andreas A. M. Kinneging, University of Leiden

 

Papers:

 

"Voegelin’s Conception of the Moral Order" - Andreas A. M. Kinneging, University of Leiden

  
"Comparing Voegelin’s ‘Representation’ and the Constitutional Lawyer’s ‘Interpretation’" - Lewis H. LaRue, Washington & Lee University              

                   

"Voegelin and Constitutionalism" - Paul B. Cliteur, University of Leiden 

     

"Voegelin’s The Nature of the Law" - Patrick H. Martin, Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University
                                                                            
Discussant: 

 

Patrick B. Brown, Seattle University


          


Panel 6.   Perspectives on Hitler, National Socialism, and the Holocaust

 

Chair:  Marie Baird, Duquesne University

 

Papers:


"Anamnesis and the Gray Zone: A Voegelinian Meditation on Holocaust Survival" - Marie Baird, Duquesne University

 
"National Socialism as a Political Religion" - Michael Burleigh, Washington and Lee University 
    

"'Heidegger and the Germans’: Voegelin on Ontotheology and Nazism" - Oona Ajzenstat, University of Toronto 

    

"Voegelin’s Analysis of Nazism in the Light of Recent Historical Research" - Clifford F. Porter, Defense Language Institute and Presidio of Monterey

                  

Discussants:  

 

Klaus Vondung, University of Siegen
Brendan Purcell, University College Dublin

 

 

 

Panel 7.   Gnosticism and Varieties of Modernity

Chair: Stephen A. McKnight, University of Florida


Papers:

 

"Voegelin’s View of Gnosticism and Modernity in Two Keynote Lectures from 1971 and 1975" - Stephen A. McKnight, University of Florida 

   

"‘Gnosis’ in Eric Voegelin’s Philosophy"  Stefan Rossbach, University of Kent at Canterbury                         

  

"Experience and Symbolization in Qumran: Are There Modern  Equivalences?" - Mark Sinnett, Saint John’s College (Annapolis)

                        

"Clarity Before Currency: Gnosticism and the Analysis of Spiritual Disorder" - Michael Franz, Loyola College of Maryland                                  

    

 Discussants:  

 

Thomas Heilke, University of Kansas

Klaus Vondung, University of Siegen