Eric Voegelin Society
16th Annual Meeting Program
September 1-2, 2000
Washington, D. C.



Panel 1 : Representation, Ethics, and Sources of Order in the Thought of Eric Voegelin, 
Paul Ricouer,Emmanuel Levinas, Gilles Deleuze, and Xavier Zubiri


Chair: Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution 

"Levinas and Voegelin on the 'Foundations' of Politics" 
        William Paul Simmons, Bethany College 

Transcendence and Immanence": Eric Voegelin and Gilles Deleuze on Conditions for Political Order" 
        Jeff Bell, Southeastern Louisiana University 

"Sight, Sound, and Postmodernity: The Role of Speech in Reconstructing Ethical Discourse" 
       
Murray Jardine, Auburn University 


"Phenomenology, Representation, and Symbols in the Thought of Voegelin and Paul Ricoeur" 
        Peter A. Petrakis, Southeastern Louisiana University


"Voegelin, Levinas, and Zubiri: Beginning A Conversation"

        Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution 


Disc: Marie Baird, Duquesne University 
        Oona Ajzenstat, McMaster University 

Panel 2 : Voegelin and the Study of Machiavelli 
 
Chair: Athanasios Moulakis, University of Colorado-Boulder

"Was Machiavelli a 'Spiritual Realist'?"
        Dante Germino, University of Virginia


"Machiavelli: the Father of Leadership Studies"

        Nathan W. Harter, Purdue University 


"Strauss and Voegelin on Machiavelli"

        Athanasios Moulakis, University of Colorado-Boulder 


"Machiavelli on Growth as an End" 
        William Connell, Seton Hall University 


"Voegelin's Interpretation of Machiavelli's Castruccio Castracani"

        Chaiwat Satha-Anand, Thammasat University (Bangkok)


Disc.: John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge
         Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr., Harvard University 

Panel 3 :Voegelin's Science of Human Affairs and German Geisteswissenschaft 


Chair: Gerald Day, McMaster University, Harald Bergbauer, Munich School of Politics

"History as Horizon: Eric Voegelin's Philosophical Wissenschaft" 
        Thomas Hollweck, University of Colorado


"Eric Voegelin and Karl Jaspers on History" 
        Harald Bergbauer, Munich School of Politics

 
"Social Science and Salvation: Notes on one Branch of German Sociology"
        William Petropulos, The British Council


"Recovering the Spiritual Science of Philosophical Anthropology: F.W.J. Schelling and Voegelin"
        Gerald L. Day, McMaster University


Disc.: Klaus Vondung, University of Siegen
         Hans-Jörg Sigwart, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

Panel 4 : Philosophy, Science, and Modernity 

Chair: Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University

"Voegelin and Heidegger as Critics of Modernity" 
        Michael D. Henry, St. John's University 


"The Phenomenology of Moral Life: The Retrieval of the Christian-humanism in the Work of Scheler, Hartmann, and Hildebrand" 
        Andreas A. M. Kinneging, University of Leiden 


"Episteme: Reflections on Voegelin, Hegel, and Modernity
        Clarence Sills, Independent Scholar


Disc.: Glenn Hughes, St. Mary's University-San Antonio
         Edward Findlay, Boston College
         William Petropoulos, The British Council

Panel 5 : Voegelin, the Great Reformation, and Its Aftermath: A Critical Assessment

Chair: Mark W. Sinnett, St. John's College-Annapolis

"Voegelin the Faithless: Thoughts from Luther"
        Joshua Mitchell, Georgetown University 


"Was Eric Voegelin Fair to the Lutheran Reformation?" 
        Henrik Syse, International Peace Institute (PRIO)BNorway & Asbjörn Bjornes,

         University of Oslo 


"Calvin, Gnosis and Anti-Philosophy: Voegelin's Treatment of the Reformation"

        Thomas W. Heilke, University of Kansas


"An Agnostic View of Voegelin's Gnostic Calvin"

        William Stevenson, Calvin College


"History and Faith: Eric Voegelin and Historical Jesus Research"
        Aaron D. Hoffman, Catholic University of America


Disc.: David L. Morse, Duquesne University 
         William M. Thompson, Duquesne University

Panel 6 :Roundtable on Eric Voegelin and the Foundations of Modern Political Science, 
by Barry Cooper (University of Missouri Press, 1999)

 
Chair: Jene M. Porter, University of Saskatchewan


Parts.: Martin Palous, Charles University (Prague)
Steven Ealy, Liberty Fund, Inc.
Michael Franz, Loyola College of Maryland
David Walsh, Catholic University of America
Walter J. Nicgorski, University of Notre Dame
Resp: Barry Cooper, University of Calgary

Panel 7 : Order and History , vol. 5, and the Scope of "Noetic Science"

Chair: Glenn Hughes, St. Mary's University-San Antonio 
 
"The Experience of History and Place: A Voegelinian Perspective"
        Jack D. Elliott, Miss. Dept. of Archives and History


"Aristotle, Voegelin, and Noesis"

        David D. Corey, Louisiana State University


"What is Noetic Science?"

        Thomas J. McPartland, Kentucky State University


Disc.:  William M. Thompson, Duquesne University
          Brian J. Braman, Boston College