We just received word on the following summer program:

Mathias Riedel is  co-organizing a summer school on
"Messianism - Jewish and Christian Perspectives" which will
take place in Budapest, July 5-16, 2010.  The course targets
advanced graduate students, young researchers and faculty.
All details concerning course contents, application
requirements and procedures are available online:

  http://www.summer.ceu.hu/02-courses/course-sites/messianism
/index-messianism.php

Application deadline: February 15, 2010

Something worth looking into.

Fritz Wagner


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For those who have not visited VoegelinView this week:

"Drowned yesterday in a branch of sky"--
How does one express the love between father and son? Not
easily. But poetry editor Glenn Hughes has chosen something
that may come us as close as one might with words, without
falling into sentimentality. Read our second offering from
Ernest Sandeen:"Kite umbilicus."

The Ministry of Love--
"Political correctness is enforced by the state and assumes
the agent is not free to alter his behavior through
persuasion. Political correctness aims to control a self
that cannot control itself." In Canada today the Human
Rights Commissions have brought a taste of Orwell's
futuristic novel of mind control,1984, into everyday life.
Read John von Heyking's The War on Hate: The Past and Future
of Political Correctness and Liberty.

A Theory of Phenomena isn't a Philosophy of Substance--
"The evolutionary movement has a distinct anti-Christian,
secularistic flavor through the assumption that the
interpretation of man as the final link in the chain of
evolution has a bearing on the understanding of man as a
spiritual existence" writes Eric Voegelin.  Read this week
Biological Phenomenalism and Charles Darwin.

Philosophy and "The Time of the Tale"
This week John von Heyking offers his review of Charles
Embry's The Philosopher and the Storyteller: Eric Voegelin
and 20th Century Literature, a consideration of the fruit of
the friendship between Eric Voegelin and literary critic
Robert B. Heilman in which Professor Embry examines Graham
SwiftÂ’s Waterland, Heimito von DodererÂ’s The Demons and
Flannery OÂ’ConnorÂ’s The Violent Bear it Away.

"We must read a text like a painting"--
This week Hans-Georg Gadamer explains to us that In the
tragedy of Oedipus "we realize our own blindness, without
suffering the same pain of the hero; the catharsis theory of
Aristotle is much better than the moralistic account or, I
think, the elucidations by modern scientific advancement
[such as psychoanalysis]."  Read part two of Hermeneutics:
the Art of Understanding and Interpreting.

The URL is www.voegelinview.com


Best,

Fritz Wagner

For those who have not visited VoegelinView this week:

"And love is love, in beggars and in kings"--
Our poetry editor searches fusty volumes in lonely libraries
to find great poems by forgotten men.  Or so antique
imagining might suggest! This week he has found Sir Edward
Dyer, a courtier of Elizebeth the First and an erstwhile
putative Shakespeare. This poem celebrates the familiar in a
perfectly contemporary way.  Read  "The lowest trees have
tops."

"I Tried to make a Paradiso Terrestre"--
Today we present Glenn Hughes' examination of Ezra Pound's
work in the light of Voegelinian principles.  Pound was a
progressivist who would not admit that  "[Truth-revealing]
language can be rejected by a perverse will, by a will
committed to self-assertion, dominated by disordering
desires, or over­whelmed by the anxieties of existence."
Yet at life's end Pound saw his own failures. Read Part 3 of
Ezra Pound and the Balance of Consciousness.

"Refined Sophistic and spiritual Vulgarity"--
In the Heilman-Voegelin correspondence there are many
fascinating exchanges. This week we present Eric Voegelin's
consideration of ideological error and terror: "[One] would
have to speak of the 'obsessive language' of ideologues —
which has the double purpose of repetitious, mechanical
iteration of the phantasy and of killing off, at the same
time, any conflicting reality." Read Orwell, Dostoevsky and
Flaubert: Obsession as the sensuous Outburst of Cruelty.

"Many People of Tomorrow are from Yesterday"--
This week we begin the Hans-Georg Gadamer lecture on
Hemeneutics from the conference of that name held at York
University in 1978: "[Even] the craftsman is not sovereign
over against his fabrications. The consumer . . . can use it
and abuse it; he can treat it correctly; he can destroy it
quickly."  Read part 1 of "Hermeneutics: the Art of
Understanding and Interpreting."

The URL is www.voegelinview.com


Best,

Fritz Wagner

My latest.
JvH

http://www.c2cjournal.ca/blog-articles/view/book-review-its-the-regime-stupid-a-\
report-from-the-cowboy-west-on-why-stephen-harper-matters-by-barry-cooper--key-p\
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_____________________________
John von Heyking, PhD.
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Lethbridge
4401 University Drive West
Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4
CANADA
Ph:  (403) 329-2573
Fax:  (403) 382-7148
john.vonheyking@...
http://people.uleth.ca/~john.vonheyking/






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might i also mention that amazon.com's page for david walsh's modern
philosophical revolution has two lengthy revews by two dubliners. one by
brendan purcell, already appears on voegelinview.com; the other by
joseph mccarroll may or may not appear elsewhere.

jack

von Heyking, John wrote:
>
>
> In light of the recent publication in Voegelinview.com of papers on
> David Walsh's Modern Philosophical Revolution from our meeting in
> Toronto, I wish to point to these essays that have been published in
> Fideles: A Journal of Redeemer Pacific College. The papers were read
> at a symposium on Walsh's book in the spring. Information here:
> http://morec.com/rpc/fideles.html <http://morec.com/rpc/fideles.html>
>


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In light of the recent publication in Voegelinview.com of papers on David
Walsh's Modern Philosophical Revolution from our meeting in Toronto, I wish to
point to these essays that have been published in Fideles: A Journal of Redeemer
Pacific College.  The papers were read at a symposium on Walsh's book in the
spring. Information here:
http://morec.com/rpc/fideles.html

Papers by Grant Havers (who recently published a book on Abraham Lincoln with U
of Missouri Press), Steven Millies (a Burke scholar), Christopher Morrissey (an
Aquinas scholar), and me.

Contact Christopher Morrissey for information on obtaining a copy of the issue: 
Morrissey Chris <c.morrissey@...>


JvH


_____________________________
John von Heyking, PhD.
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Lethbridge
4401 University Drive West
Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4
CANADA
Ph:  (403) 329-2573
Fax:  (403) 382-7148
john.vonheyking@...
http://people.uleth.ca/~john.vonheyking/






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For those who have not visited VoegelinView this week:

They read with joy, then shut the book . . .
This week our poetry editor has chosen The Revelation by
Coventry Patmore. Patmore is considered one of the best
though least known of the Victorian poets and became
associated with the pre-Raphaelites, including among others,
Dante Gabriel Rosetti and William Holman Hunt. Can life for
most men be as somber as he portrays it?

Admitting the Permanent Imperfection of Finite Existence--
Glenn Hughes writes "one is led to despise or ignore the
world in favor of a perfection imagined to be elsewhere or
later, or one impatiently seeks the realization of
perfection in the here and now. In either case, the balance
of consciousness is lost." Read part 1 of Ezra Pound and the
balance of Consciousness in which the tools of Voegelinian
analysis are laid out before turning to Pound and his art.

The Self-sufficient ordering of Existence through Science--
This week Eric Voegelin cautions that "The spiritual desire,
in the Platonic sense, must be very strong in a young man of
our time in order to overcome the obstacles that social
pressure puts in the way of its cultivation." Read On the
Pathos of Science and the Spiritual Eunuchs.

The Apple Store beckoned and a Voegelinian worried--
The Apple people got a largish amount of cash from our
Executive Editor in return for a computer, but the
experience left a feeling of anxiety which was not quite
allayed by reading the above excerpt from EV.  Read about
The Apple Store in Commentary.

The Teleological Conscription of Psychic Energy--
This week we begin a chapter in Thomas McPartland's Lonergan
and the Philosophy of Historical Existence in which he
describes Lonergan's approach to the development of the
self. "Another word for this tension is anxiety. To carry
out self-appropriation requires that we come to grips with
this permanent existential mood." Read part 1 of
Self-Appropriation in Lonergan and Voegelin.
The URL is www.voegelinview.com


Best,

Fritz Wagner

For those who have not visited VoegelinView this week:

"I find I incorporate gneiss, coal, long-threaded moss. . ."
Poetry editor Glenn Hughes has chosen this week Walt
Whitman's "Song of Myself,"  in which nature is
breathtakingly elevated above art. Walt Whitman was
considered the great poet of democracy in 19th century
American letters. Today he is harder to place, in part
because the common man has become a rather enigmatic figure
and in part because there is less room for poetry in public
life. And might a Voegelinian sense something of an
egophanic revolt  masking as "the courage to be different?"

All we've published is now collected together and linked--
We have added a small feature to VoegelinView that we are
calling Our Past Headlines.  It is a separate page showing
all our headlines with their short blurbs, together with a
link to the article in question.  We hope our readers will
find this feature useful.  Of course there is still the site
map at the bottom of each page if a person wants to get the
big picture or locate a particular article.

We now see a similarity between Voegelin and Strauss--
"Strauss argued from the 1920s on, if you abandon the world
of the [Exile]– or the understanding that the world is the
site of the Exile – then you abandon a central attribute of
Judaism.  This is not a position with which Voegelin would
differ" writes Barry Cooper in part 2 of his analysis of
Voegelin and his Contemporaries. Read today about Kelsen and
Strauss.

The Gospel as a Symbolism engendered in the Metaxy--
This week Eric Voegelin writes:  "tearing the drama of
participation asunder into the biography of a Jesus in the
spatiotemporal world and eternal verities showered from
beyond would make nonsense of the existential reality that
was experienced and symbolized as the drama of the Son of
God."  Read Divine Sonship and note EV's famous
non-idiomatic "not an information tendered by Jesus."

"Authority is not exhausted by power . . ."--
This week Thomas McPartland shows us the vital center of
Eric Voegelin's thought: "The philosophy of consciousness is
the foundation of political science because the
participatory consciousness of questioning is the source of
order in both personal existence and the life of the
polity." Read Noetic Science, part 3. It is especially
recommended for those of us who fell by the wayside in our
study of Aristotle.  McPartland explains it so well we can
understand and perhaps even remember!

The URL is www.voegelinview.com


Best,

Fritz Wagner

For those who have not visited VoegelinView this week:

For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago--
The Romantic sensibility that dominated art and even
influenced politics for well over a century combined aching
beauty with a longing for the unattainable.  It was one
response to arid, formalistic religion.  Glenn Hughes has
chosen for us a perfect example of the genre, William
Wordsworth's The Solitary Reaper.

What do the numbers mean— particularly en française?--
Well, the visitor numbers mean much less than they appear
to, unless perhaps you read about them in French.  We eat
some humble pie in Commentary.

"What does a . . . cave drawing actually mean?"--
"The difference between literate and preliterate materials
was that the latter gave visual expression to a repertoire
of common human experiences, including the search for the
truth of the order of being, rather than a textual
expression,"  writes Barry Cooper in Part 1 of his
discussion of Marie König in Voegelin and his
Contemporaries.

" attention to the impact of revelation on their souls"--
James V. Schall has written a persuasive review of David
Walsh's The Modern Philosophical Revolution: the Luminosity
of Existence.  Father Schall empasizes the theological and
revelatory foundation of the book, and nicely compliments
our Toronto EVS Symposium commentaries published on Monday.
Read "The World We Think In."

"Only Concepts could be defined, but not Reality"--
There are fundamental principles about theoretical analysis
that almost no one except Eric Voegelin has considered. One
of them is considered this week when symbols used in theory
are distinguished from symbols that are used in political
life. Read Language Symbols, Part 2.
Thomas Heilke:  "A feel-good beach novel —or its
philosophical equivalent—this book is not!"

We are pleased to present this week--
five papers from the Toronto EVS panel on David Walsh's new
book, The Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of
Existence.  We are treating the occasion as a special issue
of VoegelinView.  Furthermore, we will be presenting James
Schall's review of the same book later in the week.

The URL is www.voegelinview.com


Best,

Fritz Wagner

For those who have not visited VoegelinView this week:

"When I have fears that I may cease to be . . ."
Poetry Editor Glenn Hughes presents us this week with a
conundrum:  Is the prophetic poem of John Keats, despite its
breathless beauty, made campy by William Carlos Williams,
who only last week also stood on the shore?  Or is this the
rejoinder to ridicule?

One way or another, our Founders learned Latin (Whack!)--
"When Jefferson died in 1826 three items lay on his reading
table at Monticello: a French political pamphlet, a volume
of Seneca, and Aristotle's Politics," writes Ellis Sandoz in
the 2nd part of Education and the American Founding, in
which he offers a persuasive demonstration of the influence
of the Latin and Greek classics upon the founding fathers.

Reworking tradition, ad hoc and ad decorum, as it were!--
This week our own Max Arnott returns to the subject of
memory as expounded by Frances Yates and Mary Carruthers,
and sketches for us mindfulness, mnemonic techniques, and
emotion's importance for memory—with perhaps the writings of
EV as one motivation.

Power at the Moment of its Existential Starkness--
Today Eric Voegelin takes a look at Machiavelli and finds
him "preferable as a man to the contractualists who try to
cover the reality of power underneath an established order
by the moral, or should we say immoral, swindle of consent."
Read Naked Power and Political Morality.

The Critical Core of Voegelin's Thought--
Eric Voegelin developed his philosophy of consciousness as
an instrument for examining history: "[Voegelin] suggests
that we can substitute for politcal science. . . the term
noetic interpretation," writes Thomas McPartland in his
examination of Voegelin's understanding of Aristotle —for
Voegelin opposes the more conventional interpretations.
Beginning today we are pleased to offer an excerpt from
Lonergan and the Philosophy of Historical Existence.


The URL is www.voegelinview.com


Best,

Fritz Wagner

> Prof. John Roos has organized the Gerhart Niemeyer Archive at the
> University of Notre Dame.  Details explained in this email he sent.
JvH




>
> Dear Friends of Gerhart Niemeyer,
>
>
>
> I think many of you know that I was able to get Gerhart’s papers
> here at Notre Dame, and 10 large boxes with hundred of folders are
> now in our archives.   With the help  of graduate student Adam
> Seagrave I began a detailed catalogue of the  entire inventory.
> The inventory is now complete and you can access  it two ways. , Go
> directly to the catalogue through this address http://archives.nd.edu/GNM.htm
>  Or go to the Notre Dame Archives home page, go to “ search
> collection” and put in Gerhart Niemeyer and then click on the fourth
> entry “ Gerhart Niemeyer Manuscripts”.  As you will see, there is a
> range of fascinating material representing the many aspects of his
> life.
>
>
>
> Please forward this to anyone you think would be interested in the
> materials.
>
>
>
> Best
>
> John Roos
>

_____________________________
John von Heyking, PhD.
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Lethbridge
4401 University Drive West
Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4
CANADA
Ph:  (403) 329-2573
Fax:  (403) 382-7148
john.vonheyking@...
http://people.uleth.ca/~john.vonheyking/






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For those who have not visited VoegelinView this week:

  And the whispering of my heart, in your presence . . .
We have been waiting some months for poetry editor Glenn
Hughes to select one of the Psalms for us to enjoy.  He has
done so now by choosing Psalm 19—attributed to King David—in
a modern  translation that belies complaints about mean
modern renderings.

A Protestant American founding is hard to imitate!--
We begin today Ellis Sandoz' Education and the American
Founding. He begins with the strong Protestant biblical
environment of the founding fathers. It is difficult to
imagine U.S. society or its laws without that biblical
influence:"'... a full one-third of all citations in the
enormous pamphlet literature of the period were to texts in
the Bible.'" Even Thomas Jefferson was a "closet" Christian.
Without substantial evidence, ideologists deny the
incontrovertible truth of the Christian founding.

"Myth—Schmyth!" What's in a myth?—Part II--
This week Eric Voegelin finds mythical foundations of
empire, but also skepticism and a breakthrough to the
"unknown God." In the course of his enumeration, he
observes: "There is no 'eternal return' in any ancient
civilization; there is only a rhythmical renewal, and the
rhythm is not an eternal renewal," —contrary to the
conventional wisdom.

No Place for us to live anymore?--
This week we offer Robert Cheek's review of Hannah Coulter,
a novel by Wendell Berry that brings accute awareness of the
"loss of place" that has befallen most of us who live in
advanced technolgy societies. It parallels, but with
concrete detail, Eric Voegelin's discussion of the anxiety
which people experience "when the house in which they live
is lost."

Did Voegelin find his true path during those early years?--
This week Barry Cooper explains the reasons he wrote his new
book, The Beginning of the Quest,  and suggests that
Voegelin's training as a lawyer may help account for his
insistence on referring to experience: "... it is possible
to discover an intellectual trajectory that is relentless in
its penetration to the core of the problems that Voegelin
tackled."

We hit 428 visitors online at the same time Wednesday
morning.

The layout of the evforum online has been changed to make it
appear more in keeping with the rest of the site.  Perhaps
that will encourage people to start posting there. : )

The URL is www.voegelinview.com


Best,

Fritz Wagner

For those who have not visited VoegelinView this week:

When form grows stale and content cloys--
The modern poet, William Carlos Williams, is offered to us
this week by poetry editor Glenn Hughes. One might find
Williams' "Portrait of a Lady" not only a gentle satire on
last week's Ezra Pound "Portrait d'une femme," but a
compelling demonstration of how hard it is to use an old
aesthetic to express our present experiences.

Answers to questions that few could even formulate--
In the concluding part of Americanism: Genesis of a Civil
Theology, Juergen Gebhardt steps away from the American
experience to examine universals, and in doing so, rises to
a  level where the mind can find repose: "The essential
factor of a social field of consciousness therefore lies
[in] the interpretation of an experience of reality that by
its content confers collectivity."  He also takes only one
paragraph to lay out the central flaw in Marx and does the
same for Jung in one footnote.

Slouching toward Toronto to be Bored?--
Reflections on Toronto, Part II, appearing on the Commentary
page, considers the question of whether there might have
been a hidden elephant in Sheraton Conference Room B/C?

"Myth—Schmyth!" What's in a myth, anyway?--
Eric Voegelin considers  the true nature of the myth,
demolishes a few conventional misunderstandings—not even
leaving untouched the estimable Mircea Eliade.This week read
Myth and Misunderstandings: The Nature of Myth in
Cosmological Civilizations, Part 1.

Political Theology vs Political Religion--
We are now able to offer the first fruits of the Eric
Voegelin Society annual meeting in Toronto. Read here
Thierry Gontier's comparison of Carl Schmitt  and Voegelin,
with an emphasis on  Voegelin's Political Relgions of 1938.
"[Schmitt] remained for Voegelin a decisionist in the sense
of 'an agnostic and unprincipled existentialist like
Sartre'—that is to say, a sort of nihilist."

The URL is www.voegelinview.com


Best,

Fritz Wagner

For those who have not visited VoegelinView this week:

Mnemonics, Hermeticism and the Yates Paradigm--
This week Max Arnott takes a look at memory through the
prism of Frances Yates's The Art of Memory.  We are most
grateful to have Max back after a nasty bout with the 'flu
that sent him to the hospital during Toronto EVS. Read below
A Clean well-lighted Place, with Everything Labeled.

A poetic evocation of James' A Portrait of a Lady?--
This week poetry editor Glenn Hughes brings us Ezra Pound's
"Portrait d'une femme." Pound wrote this rather conservative
poem in 1912, well before his fifty-year Cantos project.
Few twentieth century men have done so much for art as shown
in the both astonishing yet restrained Wikepedia article on
his life, a life that drew to a close after a treason trial
and commitment to an asylum.  Those who are interested in
larger-than-life personalities might ponder his life, as
well as read this poem said to be inspired by Henry James'
novel.

Phenomenology, Alfred Schütz, and the Cosmion--
"Power relations and economic structures are shaped by the
order of consciousness, exhibited in the order of symbols,"
writes Juergen Gebhardt, in the course of his search for an
adequate instrument for interpretation of a living society,
following Schütz, his students, and finally, Eric Voegelin.
Read Part 9 of Americanism: The Genesis of a Civil Theology.

Toronto EVS and Political Correctness--
Our first look at the Eric Voegelin Society annual meeting
in Toronto is about Political Correctness, Parliament
(Ottawa) and Princeton. Read all about it in Commentary.

A Depth beyond Articulate Experience?--
"When the night is sinking on the symbols that have had
their day, one must return to the night of the depth that is
luminous with truth. . ." writes Eric Voegelin in his
profound meditation  "Experience and Symbolization in
History." This week we offer The Depth—as the Antidote to
Misplaced concreteness.  Like much of Voegelin's work, it is
both beautiful and difficult.

The URL is www.voegelinview.com


Best,

Fritz Wagner

Dear Voegelin colleagues,

A little self-promotion here.

I've published a chapter on Voegelin's understanding of empire in light
of recent world events in, /Enduring Empire:  Ancient Lessons for Global
Politics/, eds., David Tabachnick and Toivo Koivukoski (University of
Toronto Press).

Book details are here:

http://www.utppublishing.com/pubstore/merchant.ihtml?pid=10474&step=4

JvH


--

John von Heyking, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Lethbridge
4401 University Drive West
Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 3M4
Ph: (403) 329-2573
Fax:  (403) 382-7148
http://people.uleth.ca/~john.vonheyking/

For those who have not visited VoegelinView this week:

Has Voegelin redefined Philosophy?--
Voegelin was a prophetic figure: "The charged atmosphere was
that of a 'courtroom' with Voegelin the judge,"—a
participant said of the Hitler and the Germans lectures;
and this same sitting in judgment is required of the
philosopher today in the face of personal and social evil.
To do this one must live an open existence.  Read Part 2 of
Ellis Sandoz's The Philosopher's Vocation: The Voegelinian
Paradigm.

Do not underrate the joys of the grave--
Poetry editor Glenn Hughes is back from the Toronto EVS
meeting but before departing he specified for this week a
poem of morbid hue:  "Fear not slander, censure rash;Thou
hast finished joy and moan;" Read Shakespeare's the "Song -
from Cymbeline" and consider the joys of release, not often
enough enumerated in American fluff-literature of the
spirit.

The Reductionist fallacies are sliced and diced--
This week Juergen Gebhardt takes as a starting point
"Chesterton's characterization of the United States as 'a
nation with the soul of a church,'" and then lays out for us
the reductionist explanations of political culture.  Read
Part 8 of Americanism: The Genesis of a Civil Theology.

The Photos from EVS Toronto are ready!--
We took a lot of photos at the Eric Voegelin Society meeting
in Toronto. Some of them turned out better than we could
have hoped.  It was a labor of love.  But it was a labor!
They start HERE. Our thanks to Ron Srigley, Jodi Bruhn and
Steven McGuire, who provided the inspiration and the
"architecture" for the layout.

Political Science isn't for everyone--
Especially not for those who wish to become power figures
themselves. Voegelin offers this week the basic A B C's of
what is required for analysis of political life. Read The
Insight into Being and Scientific Analysis.

Best,

Fritz Wagner

Good job with photos.  I still get hung up on login= esandoz/ red122.
should work. e

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Of fjjwagner
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 1:02 AM
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Subject: [evforum] Toronto EVS Photos up at Vv



The photos from Toronto EVS are now
up at VoegelinView and can be viewed here:
http://voegelinview.com/ev/evs_2009/evs_toronto_2009_intro.html
<http://voegelinview.com/ev/evs_2009/evs_toronto_2009_intro.html>

Best,

Fritz Wagner

The photos from Toronto EVS are now
up at VoegelinView and can be viewed here:
http://voegelinview.com/ev/evs_2009/evs_toronto_2009_intro.html

Best,

Fritz Wagner

For those who have not visited VoegelinView this week:

Vacation Time!  —VoegelinView staff will be visiting Toronto
for the Eric Voegelin Society meeting and we will take a
break between September 1st and September 10th, 2009.

!! YOU MUST HAVE YOUR PASSPORT TO ENTER CANADA !!--
Max Arnott's Guide to Toronto for Beginners is reprised
below.  We have combined into one the Toronto guide Max
offered us in June.

VoegelinView can now be read in Portuguese, German, etc.--
We have installed a Google translator. It works only when
you are NOT logged in. The question is this: Are the
translations good enough or at least better than none?  We
will survey our readers in a couple of weeks to find out. In
the upper left column there are a few national flags you can
click on for languages as well as an extensive drop down
list.

James Joyce was the straw that....forced us to improve--
This week poetry editor Glenn Hughes offers us a poem by
James Joyce.  It is thoroughly traditional in form and
rather Yeats-like in theme, 'though coming from the man who
threw out the rule book for prose fiction. It is also our
25th poem, and therewith lay a challenge.  On the web,
navigation can quickly become a problem.  We have too many
good poems at VoegelinView to leave them hidden.  Our
solution is to provide indexes of poets, titles and first
lines.  The links will appear at the bottom of each new poem
and for everyone's convenience we have added a new button on
the main drop down menu under Articles. And you can check
out the indexes HERE.

"The Mystic Chords of Memory"--
In Part 6 of Genesis of a Civil Theology Juergen Gephardt
cuts to the heart of things: "In Lincoln the form the
fathers gave to consciousness and symbol became present . .
. to such a degree that Lincoln's self-understanding became
identical with his symbolic function in the consciousness of
society."

A Girardian misreading of Voegelin--
This week Steven McGuire reviews for us Disturbing
Revelation: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin and the Bible by John
J. Ranieri, and finds little that satisfies.

The URL is www.voegelinview.com

Best,

Fritz Wagner

Two points for those attending in Toronto:

   a. A reminder: There will be a bbque at Max Arnott's place on 4 September 09
(thats Friday night) from 7:30 PM to whenever. All EVers welcome.  Take the Long
Branch Streetcar going west on Queen's Street (this is right outside the
Sheraton) and hang on until 13th street Etobicoke. Takes about 45 minutes. Walk
one block south (toward the lake) one block west (to twelfth street), half a
block south. Look for the house with the two porch lights. Anyone e-mailing that
they will come will get an extra beer.

   b. In one of my Voegelin View columns I mentioned Atticus Books, a very, very
good academic second hand store.  Alas, the place has closed.  For Toronto, this
is a loss, and then some.

   Hope to see you all in Toronto.

   cheers
   Max Arnott



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The final volume of the Collected Works, CW 29, is available
now and the indexes, etc., have been added at VoegelinView.
The notice at the top of the home page gives all the links.
See: voegelinview.com

Best,

Fritz Wagner

For those who have not visited VoegelinView this week:

And find both Adams met in Me--
John Donne, the great English divine, not only gave us "No
Man is an Island" in one of his memorable sermons, but also
gave us some well-made poems.  This week editor Glenn Hughes
has chosen Donne's Hymn to God, My God, in my Sickness.
Might one say that it is the pneumatic expression of the
noetic 'flow of presence'?  The barriers of time and
distance dissolve in the immediacy of God's love, now hidden
in Donne's ordeal.

The Desperate Attempt to save the Union--
This week Juergen Gebhardt writes about the spiritual
turmoil that underlay the American civil war.  It is very
sad and almost always misunderstood; it explains a great
deal about what we have become.  One of his insights:
"Webster and Clay were forced by the logic of the power
process to absolutize the institutionalism and
power-political pragmatism of the Founding Fathers at the
cost of relinquishing those motivating experiences of order
that alone serve to legitimate the experiment in power
politics car­ried out by the republican Union."  Read Part 5
of Americanism: The Genesis of a Civil Theology.

The German Churches acted as one might expect--
"[W]hen it's a matter of coming to terms with the temporal
aspect of the society, the respective church in the specific
society will always side with those who are the strongest at
the time" writes Eric Voegelin this week. One is forced to
reflect upon the frailty of the human members of the church
and to wonder about what conditions would cause a repetition
of the German experience in the US or elsewhere today?

Voegelin's "symbolic forms" made clear at last--
James Rhodes offers a clear explanation of Voegelin's
insight that our core experiences cannot be verbalized but
can only be pointed to, just as Plato did. And there are no
esoteric meanings available only to the wise! Read this
week's Part 10 of  Modern Views of Plato's Silence.

The URL is www.voegelinview.com

Best,

Fritz Wagner

For those who have not visited VoegelinView this week:

Two Tiny sundowns choking in the grass—
This week we feature a poem by the late Ernest Sandeen. It
is called "Parked Car." Professor Sandeen also taught our
executive editor fifty years ago, so a recollection of the
man can also be found on our Commentary page.

American myths came out of Protestant understanding—
This week in Juergen Gebhardt's Americanism: The Genesis of
a Civil Theology, we look at Patrick Henry, Paul Revere and
Davy Crockett—we needed them though they might not have done
quite what we were told. And then we move on to the Civil
War which "... was certainly the "second revolution," forced
into being by the logic of the "paradigmatic republic."

A primer on gnosticism and a look at George F. Kennan—
Robert Cheeks offers this week his assessment of Stefan
Rossbach's Gnostic Wars. Not only does Rossbach make
Voegelin's thought more accessible to the general reader,
but he also brings us a much needed appreciation of Goerge
F. Kennan.

Prophecy as criticism; Natural Law as noetic—
If we could take away with us only one idea from this week's
Eric Voegelin quotation, it might be this: "It is nowhere
written that in the various historical situations church
personnel are particularly suitable guardians of the natural
law. For all the propositions of the natural law derive from
the noetic experience, whereas within the church the noetic
experience is not the primary source of experience and truth
for clerics and theologians, but is replaced by the
pneumatic experience of revelation."

The URL is www.voegelinview.com

Best,

Fritz Wagner

At the request of Ellis Sandoz, I am uploading a revised version of the
2009 Voegelin Society Newsletter to the files section of the EVForum
website. This version provides the location of the EVS Toronto panels.

You will receive a link to the newsletter momentarily.

Jack

--
[Modern e]ducation is the art of preventing people from acquiring the knowledge
that would enable them to articulate the questions of existence.
                                 Eric Voegelin, “On Classical Studies”

Hello,

This email message is a notification to let you know that
a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the evforum
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jackelliottjr <jde3@...>

On Wedneday at APSA, Lee Trepanier will be co-presenting a short
course workshop on "Creating and Teaching American Politics
Courses in a Globalized Context and Curriculum". The link is
http://www.apsanet.org/media/Short%20Course%2018.pdf.

Pre-registration is required but for our session there is no
fee (for people who plan to show up at APSA and not
register, just show up at our session). The link is
http://www.apsanet.org/mtgs/program_2009/shortcourses.cfm

The short course is 9 AM to 1 PM.


--
[Modern e]ducation is the art of preventing people from acquiring the knowledge
that would enable them to articulate the questions of existence.
                                 Eric Voegelin, “On Classical Studies”

At the suggestion of several people, we are proposing to change the date of this
bean-fest to Friday, 4 September. Same time of day, same venue.

more details as the conference approaches

Very best regards to all EVers

Cordially

Max Arnott
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   From: Douglas Arnott
   To: evforum@yahoogroups.com
   Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:09 AM
   Subject: [evforum] Invite to Barbeque 5 September in Etobicoke


     All Voegelinians are hereby cordially invited to a small barbeque on the
evening of 5 September 09, that's Saturday night, from about 7: 30 to whatever
at my house out in Etobicoke. Would those who would like to come let me know?
There will be sausages, beer, potato salad etc. The transit from downtown is
simple (I will pass on details later) although a little long.

   Hoping to see you all
   Max Arnott

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Will there be police choppers?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/5843814/Police-close-down-Faceboo\
k-barbecue-for-15-people.html

Gui Quandt



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Para: evforum@yahoogroups.com
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                   All Voegelinians are hereby cordially invited to a small
barbeque on the evening of 5 September 09,  that's Saturday night,  from about
7: 30 to whatever at my house out in Etobicoke.  Would those who would like to
come let me know?  There will be sausages, beer, potato salad etc. The transit
from downtown is simple (I will pass on details later) although a little long.



Hoping to see you all

Max Arnott



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Hi Max.

Very generous of you to offer this.  We have some problems since some of
us already have a dinner Sat. night, and the reception isn't over till 8
PM.

Also:  We're trying to have a copy of at least the roughcut of the
Voegelin documentary to show during our business meeting and reception
time frame.  But I'm sure you'll get a good response to a very nice
invitation!

See you soon I hope, Ellis

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Subject: [evforum] Invite to Barbeque 5 September in Etobicoke



All Voegelinians are hereby cordially invited to a small barbeque on the
evening of 5 September 09, that's Saturday night, from about 7: 30 to
whatever at my house out in Etobicoke. Would those who would like to
come let me know? There will be sausages, beer, potato salad etc. The
transit from downtown is simple (I will pass on details later) although
a little long.

Hoping to see you all
Max Arnott

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All Voegelinians are hereby cordially invited to a small barbeque on the evening
of 5 September 09,  that's Saturday night,  from about 7: 30 to whatever at my
house out in Etobicoke.  Would those who would like to come let me know?  There
will be sausages, beer, potato salad etc. The transit from downtown is simple (I
will pass on details later) although a little long.

Hoping to see you all
Max Arnott

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