ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY PROGRAM
23rd
Annual International Meeting
Chicago,
Aug.30-Sept. 2, 2007
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Panel 1. The Relevance of Plato
Papers:
"The Problem of Political Virtue in Plato's Protagoras"
Eric Petrie, James Madison College, Michigan State University
"The Drama of the Politikos"
James Rhodes, Marquette University
"Equivalences of Experience and Symbolization in Plato and Homer"
Zdravko
Planinc,
McMaster University
Disc:
Ron Srigley, Thorneloe University
Steve McCarl, University of
Denver
Jeremy Mhire, University of
Virginia
Panel
2.
Equivalences of Symbolization-Experience in China?
Chair:
James Wiser, University of San Francisco
Papers:
"Experience and Symbolization in Chuang-Tze"
S. Barret Dolph, Pegasus International Schools
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"Ambiguity and the Concern
with Language in the Traditions of Chinese Buddhist
Philosophy"
Hans-Rudolf
Kantor, Huafan University
"Sagehood as Spiritual Rhetoric:
The Concept of Language in Confucianism"
Kai
Marchal, Huafan University
Disc.:
Barret Dolph, Pegasus International Schools
Timothy Hoye, Texas Woman’s University
Panel
3.
Scientism, Westernization, and Liberty in Chinese Politics
Chair:
Michael Franz, Loyola College of Maryland
Papers:
“Scientism
and the Dogmatics of Modernity”
David Whitney, Louisiana State University
Dept. of Political Science
“God
and the Essence of Liberty: A Preliminary Inquiry into the History of Freedom”
Hong
Xu, Asian Business Leaders Magazine
(Beijing)
"Westernization:
concepts, discourses, and life styles"
HUANG
Kuan-Min, Huafan University
Disc.:
Robert J. Cihak, M. D., independent scholar
Yu
Nam Kim, Dankook University
Xu
Zhiyue, Fudan University
John Danford, Loyola University Chicago
Panel
4.
The Authority of Truth: Eric Voegelin’s Hitler and the Germans
Chair:
Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
Papers.:
“The
Philosopher's Vocation: The Voegelinian Paradigm”
Ellis
Sandoz, Louisiana State University
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“Can
a Philosopher be a Prophetic Witness to the Truth?”
Brendan Purcell, University College Dublin
"Hitler
and the Germans and the Loss of Christian Truth"
Michael
Henry, St. Johns University
"Voegelin's Use of Musil's Concept
of 'Intelligent Stupidity' "
Glenn
Hughes, St. Mary’s University San Antonio
“Reassessing
Voegelin’s
Hitler and the Germans”
Joseph Prud’homme, Villanova University
"The
Philosopher's Vocation: Voegelin, Francis Graham Wilson, and the Theophanic"
H. Lee Cheek, Brewton-Parker College
Disc.:
Thomas Hollweck, University of Colorado–Boulder
Peter
von Sivers, University of Utah
Panel
5.
Civil Theology of the American Founding
Chair:
Glenn Moots, Northwood University
<gmmoots@concentric.net>
and <moots@northwood.edu>
Papers:
“The Last and Brightest Empire of Time”
Richard Gamble, Hillsdale College
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“George Washington’s Civil
Religion”
Jeffry
Morrison, Regent University
<jeffmor@regent.edu>
John Patrick Mullins, Saginaw Valley
State University
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“Revolutionary-era America:
Was it Enlightened or Protestant? Does it Matter”
Barry
Shain, Colgate University
Disc.:
Scott Segrest, Liberty Fund, Inc.
<ssegrest@libertyfund.org>
Glenn
Moots, Northwood University
<gmmoots@concentric.net
and> moots@northwood.edu
Panel
6.
Mysticism, Philosophy, and Holocaust Studies
Chair:
Macon Bozcek, John Carroll University
Papers:
“Faith
and Reason Re
Macon
Bozcek, John Carroll University
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“Voegelin
and Bonhoeffer: History, Transcendence and the Holocaust”
Jeremiah Russell, Louisiana State
University
“Heaven
in Hell: A Voegelinian Exploration of the Life and Writings of Etty Hillesum”
Meins G. S. Coetsier, University of Ghent
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“The
Space of Politics: Voegelin, Arendt, and Wolin Compared”
Thomas
Heilke, Kansas University
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Disc.:
Marie Baird, Duquesne University
John
von Heyking, University of Lethbridge
Panel
7.
Good and Evil in Politics, Experience, and Political Theory
Chair:
David Walsh, Catholic University of America
Papers:
“Voegelin
and Hume on Philosophical Pathology”
Kevin S. Honeycutt, Emory University
"Was Eric Voegelin the Anti-Heidegger?"
William T. Tete, Loyola University of New Orleans
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“Some
Reflections Regarding an Intellectual Biography of Eric Voegelin”
Thomas
Hollweck, University of Colorado–Boulder
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Disc.: William Miller,Marymount University
Jodi Bruhn, Independent Scholar
John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge
Panel
8.
Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin: Rival Visions of Politics
and Reality
Chair:
Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
Papers:
"The
Catholic Moment in the Political Philosophy of Leo Strauss"
James
R. Stoner, Louisiana State University
"Why Leo Strauss is Not an Aristotelian: An Exploratory Study"
Michael
Zuckert, University of Notre Dame
“Arendt's
politics of 'worldliness' and its
critique by Strauss and Voegelin"
Horst
Mewes, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Reflections What is Political Philosophy
for Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin”
Timothy Fuller, Colorado College
Disc.: Martin Palouš, Charles University
Barry
Cooper, University of Calgary
Henrik
Syse, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Panel
9.
Voegelin’s Quandary: Faith in Search of Understanding or
Understanding in Search of Faith?
Chair:
Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University–San Antonio
Papers:
“Eric Voegelin: Understanding in Search of Faith?”
Stefan
Rossbach, University of Kent
Frederick
Lawrence, Boston College
Disc.: Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University–San Antonio
Thomas
McPartland, Kentucky State University
Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
<paulcaringella@sbcglobal.net>
Panel
10.
Philosophies of History and Theories of Politics
Chair:
Thomas McPartland, Kentucky State University
“The
(Im)possibility of Politics: Voegelin and Kierkegaard”
Eugen L. Nagy, Catholic University of
America
Paul
Caringella, Hoover Institution on War,
Revolution and Peace
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“Albert
Camus on the Modern Predicament”
Ron
Srigley, Thornloe University
“Giambattista
Vico and Eric Voegelin on History and Politics”
Giuseppe
Ballacci, University of Madrid
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Disc.:
Marie Baird, Duquesne U
Craig
Hanks, Texas State University
Oana Cimpean, Louisiana State University