Have any of you read Hanks, _Christ as Criminal_? I mention it both because I've just become aware of it and because Donald, as a colleague for many years...
The attached link might lead one to infer that galaxies are like people. They arrive fully developed. It might also imply that the Darwinian model of...
Gentlemen, There was a time during which I would pounce on anything that appeared to be even remotely different from what EV believed. I knew EV. I liked EV....
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G Ellis Sandoz
esandoz@...
Jul 12, 2004 3:54 pm
I have been re-reading AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL REFLECTIONS and preparing it for inclusion in vol. 34 of the COLLECTED WORKS. Chapter 22 is particularly therapeutic...
Is anyone on the list familiar with Robert P. Kraynak? A friend sent me notice if a book by Kraynak today ...
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FMasingill@...
Jul 13, 2004 12:58 pm
In a message dated 7/12/2004 12:59:23 PM Central Daylight Time, fjw@... writes: The newest listmembers may not know that Mr. Pagnan occasionally displays a...
Thank you for this information. I laughed when I read his post. Then looked at it again. Then started to doubt. Then laughed again. Now, I'm just laughing....
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S. Barret Dolph
wheds8@...
Jul 13, 2004 4:06 pm
Although I am all for reprinting books by EV. I really can't see the optimism for expecting his works to be read. And if they are read how will they be read....
I agree with Mr. Dolph except when it comes to the young. They are more open to being corrupted by EV. I think especially of the large numbers of 'upwardly...
I have always held the belief that spreading the word about the work of Eric Voegelin is good, notwithstanding the risks of misunderstanding, bowdlerizing, and...
Apropos of Mr. Dolph's skepticism about paperbacks being read: "I always say that this department is proof that the paperbacks have no cultural influence...
... This is too kind. However, now that you let me know, I will never write it, for fear that doing so might leave us without your charms. I am sure that Paul...
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G Ellis Sandoz
esandoz@...
Jul 13, 2004 6:43 pm
The best short accessible book (in my opinion) for a beginning Voegelin reader is his AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL REFLECTIONS--still in print at Missouri in a cheap...
There is a natural desire to search for origins of things, particularly when the present day is confusing and disordered. When the time comes when enough...
... Probably so, but there is a larger context, a different context. Just as it is impossible for a physicist to understand relativity without understanding...
Mr. Pagnan -- Could you expand a bit on one facet of this very good post? Around the middle of the post you listed existentialism as one of the deformities...
EV was a great admirer of Camus. When one talks about "existentialism" one must be careful about what (and who) one is talking about. As an instrument for...
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G Ellis Sandoz
esandoz@...
Jul 14, 2004 12:50 am
Mr. Pagnan's comment on contexts is relevant, and it applies to understanding anything. The principal value of commencing a study of EV with AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL...
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Larry Chappell
larchap@...
Jul 14, 2004 1:44 am
There is a difference between people who describe themselves as existentialists and those who get analytically grouped as existentialists. I once heard...
To all, This last weekend I put out my back. I found out the hard way that we older guys can no longer move stones and shovel gravel to fix patios like we used...
Mr. Rovira, In the 1950's and 60's there lived a beastie known as a "Beatnik". Unlike the "Hippies" of the 70's, they have been forgotten, and intentionally, I...
I received last night a paper from a listmember and I have only started to read it; but it has put me in mind of a new animated cartoon viewable on the...
Thanks very much to Mr. Wagner, Mr. Chappell (and I would love to see a copy of that manuscript. I can read MS Word and WordPerfect), and Mr. Pagnan for their...
Last night I was browsing through the July 4 issue of the Catholic weekly OUR SUNDAY VISITOR, when I found myself in the middle of an interview pertaining to...
... Larry, Excellent. If EV had a fault, it was that he spent little time in gutters. Europeans, especially Germans, have a social stratum that demands that...
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Larry Chappell
larchap@...
Jul 14, 2004 2:51 pm
Hannah Arendt was in America because she was fleeing from Nazi Tyranny. I do not think she taught a course on existentialism. She taught a wide variety of...
... Yes, Larry, you have correctly identified more of EV's faults. That he would imagine that modern milleniarists inherit from Johachim de Flora or that...
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Larry Chappell
larchap@...
Jul 14, 2004 9:58 pm
I sit here getting drunk as usual preparing for my daily cocktail party and listening to John Cage while I wonder who the Hell John Case is. Looks like he...
