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
Thomas J. McPartland, Kentucky State University
Disc.: William M. Thompson, Duquesne University
Brian J. Braman, Boston College