There is a remarkable difference between the "imagined" Voegelin and the "real" Voegelin. The latter was not only keen on reeding modern 'high brow ' novels...
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Barry Cooper
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Apr 1, 2004 6:06 pm
This is quite true. A few years ago when visiting Erlangen, where the V library is stored, I would on occasion borrow (quite illegally as I am sure JG will...
Thanks for all the replies. They gave me some interesting glimpses at Voegelin. (I particularly liked the image of Voegelin sitting watching The Rockford...
"All men by their nature desire to know." I think the classical understanding, philosophic and Orthodox Christian, is that the erotic tension can never be...
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FMasingill@...
Apr 2, 2004 3:43 pm
In a message dated 4/1/2004 10:08:39 PM Central Standard Time, stromthy4@... writes: Thanks for all the replies. They gave me some interesting glimpses ...
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Larry Chappell
larchap@...
Apr 2, 2004 5:02 pm
Why is it difficult imagining people i n the audience understanding it? This was a long time ago, but I recall it as an engaging and clear lecture. ... ...
... A book that speaks directly to this issue is Catherine Pickstock's AFTER WRITING: THE LITURGICAL CONSUMATION OF PHILOSOPHY, Blackwell, Oxford, 1998, an...
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FMasingill@...
Apr 2, 2004 5:37 pm
In a message dated 4/2/2004 11:04:26 AM Central Standard Time, larchap@... writes: Why is it difficult imagining people i n the audience understanding...
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Larry Chappell
larchap@...
Apr 2, 2004 6:14 pm
In most public lectures, some in an audience will click with the lecture, some will get some of it and some will be lost. The audience was relatively large as...
... 04/02/2004 11:08 AM --------------------------- Voegelin's White Lecture at LSU filled the Moot Court room in the Hebert Law Center and was well-received...
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G Ellis Sandoz
esandoz@...
Apr 2, 2004 6:56 pm
... 04/02/2004 12:18 PM --------------------------- G Ellis Sandoz 04/02/2004 10:04 AM To: evforum@yahoogroups.com cc: Subject: Re: [evforum] Re: a...
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G Ellis Sandoz
esandoz@...
Apr 2, 2004 7:21 pm
Voegelin's White Lecture at LSU filled the Moot Court room in the Hebert Law Center and was well-received by the audience. Voegelin's dense writings contrast...
... Here's another citation of relevance: Peter McMylor and Maria Vorozhishcheva, "The Displacement of the Liturgical in the Formation of Modernity," TELOS,...
Question from a friend that I can't answer: Did EV discuss "theories of metaphor" and in this discussion did he articulate a theory of metaphor viz-a-viz a...
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FMasingill@...
Apr 3, 2004 12:38 am
In a message dated 4/1/2004 12:08:38 PM Central Standard Time, bcooper@... writes: Which, I took to mean that he conceded Walt Kelly, the creator of ...
The question "did EV discuss theories of metaphor" is obscured by the fact that the phrase "theories of metaphor" has no scientific definition or clear...
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chip sills
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Apr 3, 2004 2:09 am
I don't know about Voegelin speaking directly in terms of "theories of metaphor" (what a wonderful phrase!), but I do know that John Caputo in 1982 published...
Owen Jones wrote: "I know many people who are spend their whole lives reacting to Puritanism, even though they have never even experienced Puritanism." I have...
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FMasingill@...
Apr 3, 2004 7:37 am
In a message dated 4/2/2004 8:06:13 PM Central Standard Time, mpagnan@... writes: It must be understood that EV writes to those who might be able ...
Here is a Rockford Files (psychological relief from the tension, etc...) analogy. I was involved in a translation project of an American book written by a...
This essay I'm thinking of was published sometime in the late 1960s (maybe later). Near the beginning, Voegelin writes about how he recently spent many...
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Glenn (Chip) Hughes
ghughes@...
Apr 3, 2004 8:06 pm
Perhaps you are thinking of "Configurations of History" (in Vol. 12 of the CW)--Toynbee is mentioned at the start, & conversations in Normandy. GH ... From:...
I figured those references to "theories of metaphor" and "Heidegger" would be like waving red flags! I am not sure what is implied by "Heideggerian reading of...
In the eyes of ardent Democrats, the power enjoyed by the GOP since Reagan is entirely due to massive "Puritan" support. They are right, but they don't see or...
To Chip Hughes -- yes, I think that's the essay. Thanks very much. (Funny how I confused the Swiss Alps with Normandy...) D.S. ... of the CW)--Toynbee is...
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I think the discussion of metaphor below is exactly the kind of academic theorizing and analysis that Voegelin sought to avoid. Voegelin is not interested in...
