17th Annual Meeting Papers
Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 2001
San Francisco, California

Posted by permission of the respective authors. Copyright 2001. All rights reserved.

Chair: Margaret Hrezo, Radford University

Todd Meyers, University of Phoenix

    "Spirit and Power: Political Order in Dostoevsky and Nietzsche"

Richard Avramenko, Georgetown University

    "Bedeviled by Boredom: A Theory of Consciousness in Dostoevsky’s Possessed"

Max Arnott, Independent Scholar

    "The Poetic Core of Eric Voegelin"

Mark Mitchell, Georgetown University 

    "Voegelin and Michael Polanyi on the Relationship Between Epistemology and Politics"

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

Chair: Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University

John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge 

    "Nicholas of Cusa and the Grounds of Toleration"

Matthias Riedl, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 

    "The Political Thought of Joachim de Fiore"

Govert J. Buijs, Free University of Amsterdam             

    "Entzauberung and Verzauberung:Some Problems of the Concept of Immanentization"         

Discussants: Todd Breyfogle, University of Denver
                   Peter von Sivers, University of Utah
                   Tilo Schabert, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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

Dante Germino, University of Amsterdam 

    "Voegelin’s Theory of Interpretation as Applied to Plato and Aristotle"

James M. Rhodes, Marquette University

    "An Old Obligation"

Zdravko Planinc, McMaster University 

    "The Erotics of Recognition in Plato" 

Tilo Schabert, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 

    "Plato, the Prophet"

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

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

Chair: Richard Geldard, Yeshiva University

Richard Geldard, Yeshiva University

    "Voegelin, the Pre-Socratics, and the Noetic Quest"             

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

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

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

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

Andreas A. M. Kinneging, University of Leiden

    "Voegelin’s Conception of the Moral Order"

Lewis H. LaRue, Washington & Lee University              

    "Comparing Voegelin’s ‘Representation’ and the Constitutional Lawyer’s ‘Interpretation’"

Paul B. Cliteur, University of Leiden 

     "Voegelin and Constitutionalism,"

                       
Patrick H. Martin, Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University

    "Voegelin’s The Nature of the Law" 
                                                                            
Discussant: Patrick B. Brown, Seattle University
          

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

Chair:  Marie Baird, Duquesne University

Marie Baird, Duquesne University

    "Anamnesis and the Gray Zone: A Voegelinian Meditation on Holocaust Survival"

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

Oona Ajzenstat, University of Toronto 

    "'Heidegger and the Germans’: Voegelin on Ontotheology and Nazism"

Clifford F. Porter, Defense Language Institute and Presidio of Monterey

    "Voegelin’s Analysis of Nazism in the Light of Recent Historical Research"

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

Chair: Stephen A. McKnight, University of Florida

Stephen A. McKnight, University of Florida 

    "Voegelin’s View of Gnosticism and Modernity 
   in Two Keynote Lectures from 1971 and 1975"

Stefan Rossbach, University of Kent at Canterbury                         

    "‘Gnosis’ in Eric Voegelin’s Philosophy"   

Mark Sinnett, Saint John’s College (Annapolis)

    "Experience and Symbolization in Qumran: Are There Modern  Equivalences?"      

Michael Franz, Loyola College of Maryland                                  

    "Clarity Before Currency: Gnosticism and the Analysis of Spiritual Disorder"

Discussants:  Thomas Heilke, University of Kansas

                    Klaus Vondung, University of Siegen