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This volume brings together critical review papers, many specially
commissioned, on key themes and questions in the work of the
political scientist, philosopher and religious thinker Eric
Voegelin (1901-1985). Areas covered include: (1) Political science:
'Political Religions': manifestations in Nazi Germany and in
contemporary European and North American nationalism; (2)
International relations: the 'Cold War' in critical perspective;
(3) Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle in the reading of Eric
Voegelin: contemporary assessments; (4) Sociology: Correspondence
of Voegelin and Alfred Sch++tz; (5) New Testament studies and
Christology: questions and developments for Voegelin's
interpretations; (6) Old Testament studies: questions and
developments from Voegelin's Israel and Revelation; (7) Historical
sociology: Revelation and order in axial-age societies; (8)
Philosophy of history: Voegelin and Toynbee in contrast; (9)
Literary studies: Voegelin in contrast with contemporary literary
theory; critical readings of Milton, Greek tragedy.
Edited by veteran Czech diplomat and senior religion scholar Glenn
Hughes, The Presence of the Past presents new insights from a
conference hosted by the Vaclav Havel Program for Human Rights and
Diplomacy at Florida International University, in cooperation with
the Czech non-profit organization Post Bellum and the Vaclav Havel
Library. Its fundamental topic is memory, the human capacity to
retain its contents in the flux of time, which is explored and
discussed both theoretically and in terms of current
action-oriented public discourse. The distinguished group of
philosophers, theologians, political scientists, historians,
journalists, and political activists who contributed to this volume
share their perspectives on pressing issues in the modern world, at
the nexus of politics and philosophy. This book's most central goal
is to bring together those who are used to operating in the realm
of ideas, in the so-called "ivory tower," and those who work on the
ground-sharp observers of human matters, trained to study them from
different perspectives and exposed in their daily lives to the
practical problems connected with our capacities of memory,
individual or collective. The aim of this dialogue and
communication is to open a path to a new beginning. A postscript
tries to demonstrate that such an encounter is truly possible; that
it can even be productive, and make a good deal of sense.
If natural law arguments struggle to gain traction in contemporary
moral and political discourse, could it be because we moderns do
not share the understanding of nature on which that language was
developed? Building on the work of important thinkers of the last
half-century, including Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, John Finnis,
and Bernard Lonergan, the essays in Concepts of Nature compare and
contrast classical, medieval, and modern conceptions of nature in
order to better understand how and why the concept of nature no
longer seems to provide a limit or standard for human action. These
essays also evaluate whether a rearticulation of pre-modern ideas
(or perhaps a reconciliation or reconstitution on modern terms) is
desirable and/or possible. Edited by R. J. Snell and Steven F.
McGuire, this book will be of interest to intellectual historians,
political theorists, theologians, and philosophers.
A life of liberty and responsibility does not just happen, but
requires a particular kind of education, one that aims at both a
growth of the human soul and an enrichment of political society in
justice and the common good. This we call a liberal education.
Forgetfulness of liberty is also a forgetfulness of the
multi-dimensional nature of the human person, and a diminution of
political life. Keeping in mind what can be lost when liberal
education is lost, this volume makes the case for recovering what
is perennially noble and good in the liberal arts, and why the
liberal arts always have a role to play in human flourishing. Each
of the authors herein focuses on the connection of three primary
themes: human dignity, liberal education, and political society.
Intentionally rooted in the hub that joins the three themes, each
author seeks to unfold the contemporary significance of that hub.
As a whole, the volume explores how the three themes are crucial to
each other: how they illuminate each other, how they need each
other, and how the loss of one jeopardizes the wellbeing of the
others. In individual chapters, the authors engage various relevant
aspects of liberal education. As a result, the volume is organized
into three parts: Liberal Education and a Life Well Lived; Thinkers
on Dignity and Education in History; Contemporary Topics in Dignity
and Education. As education is increasingly channeled into an ever
more narrow focus on technical specialization, and measured against
professional success, students themselves face a maelstrom of
campus politics and competing political orthodoxies. These are
among the issues that tend to militate against the operative
liberty of the student to think and to speak as a person. This
edited collection is offered as an invitation to think again about
the liberal arts in order to recover the meaning of education as
the authentic pursuit of the good life or eudemonia.
If natural law arguments struggle to gain traction in contemporary
moral and political discourse, could it be because we moderns do
not share the understanding of nature on which that language was
developed? Building on the work of important thinkers of the last
half-century, including Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, John Finnis,
and Bernard Lonergan, the essays in Concepts of Nature compare and
contrast classical, medieval, and modern conceptions of nature in
order to better understand how and why the concept of nature no
longer seems to provide a limit or standard for human action. These
essays also evaluate whether a rearticulation of pre-modern ideas
(or perhaps a reconciliation or reconstitution on modern terms) is
desirable and/or possible. Edited by R. J. Snell and Steven F.
McGuire, this book will be of interest to intellectual historians,
political theorists, theologians, and philosophers.
This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1962 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1962 edition.
University Of Washington Chapbooks, No. 4.
University Of Washington Chapbooks, No. 4.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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1924. From the Introduction: The poems in this volume are almost
entirely the work of students who were enrolled last year in the
verse-writing course offered by the English department under my
instruction. Between October 1923 and June 1924 about thirty
undergraduates took this course, and more than half of them
composed poems which I consider worthy of preservation.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
The author and publisher wish to express their gratitude to the
following individuals, companies, and institutions who have made
available certain illustrations appearing in this book The Theatre
Collection of the New York Public Library, its Curator, George
Freedley, and Elizabeth Barrett, for the Frontispiece, the portrait
of Edwin Booth, the portrait of Maude Adams, the scene from Desire
Under the Elms, and the Boucicault lithograph. The Library of the
University of Pennsylvania, and Neda West lake, Rare Book
Collection, for The Old South wark Theatre, Philadelphia George
Stevens, Managing Editor, J. B. Lippincott Co., for Oldest Known
American Playbill, reproduced from Arthur Hornblows A History of
the Theatre in America. Little, Brown Co., for The Haymarket
Theatre, Boston, 1796, reproduced from Mary Caroline Crawfords The
Romance of the American Theatre. The Cooper Union Museum for the
Interior of the New Theatre, Philadelphia, 1794. The New-York
Historical Society, R. W. G. Vail, Director, for A Society Audience
at the Park Theatre, New York, 1822. The Harry T. Peters Estate,
New York City, for Wonders of Barnums Museum. Arthur H. Brook and
the Yale University Press, for Interior of the St. Charles Theatre,
New Orleans, circa 1840, reproduced from The American Stage, by
Oral Sumner Coad and Edwin Minis, Jr., Vol. 14 in The Pageant of
America. William Van Lennep, Curator, Theatre Collection, Harvard
Col lege Library, Cambridge, Mass., for the advertisements of Dalys
Under the Gaslight. The Museum of the City of New York, and May
Davenport Sey mour of the Theatre Collection, for The Florodora
Sextet, 1900. The School of Drama, University of Washington,
Seattle, for the exterior andinterior views of The Penthouse
Theatre. Gratitude is expressed also to Howard Lindsay, Robert
Coleman, and Sawyer Falk for their kindness in reading the book in
advance of publication and permitting quotation of their reactions
to it. Finally, the author wishes to acknowledge his personal
indebted ness to his friend and colleague, Robert S. Gray, for
critical assistance, and to Mary Corkins for painstaking typing and
indexing. Preface IT will surely he apparent to even a casual
observer that a book such as this must depend for most of its
information on sec ondary sources. The use of primary sources, such
as newspapers arid theatre programs, is the appropriate method for
historians of limited periods or regions. Fortunately w c have had
in this coun try a number of such patient annalists, and to them
the present writer expresses his profound gratitude, as well as his
apologies for any possible misinterpretation of their findings.
Unfortunately, the number of reference books to which the present
volume is indebted is too great for detailed acknowledg ment,
though the titles are included in the selected bibliography
appended to the volume. I must, however, pay tribute here to the
monumental work of the late Professor George C. D. Odell, Annals of
the Neiv York Stage, which is the most stupendous theatrical record
ever compiled by an individual, and which re flects so remarkably
its authors combination of scholarly in dustry and affection for
the theatre...
1924. From the Introduction: The poems in this volume are almost
entirely the work of students who were enrolled last year in the
verse-writing course offered by the English department under my
instruction. Between October 1923 and June 1924 about thirty
undergraduates took this course, and more than half of them
composed poems which I consider worthy of preservation.
Transcendence and History is an analysis of what philosopher Eric
Voegelin described as 'the decisive problem of philosophy': the
dilemma of the discovery of transcendent meaning and the impact of
this discovery on human self-understanding. The explicit
recognition and symbolization of transcendent meaning originally
occurred in a few advanced civilizations worldwide during the first
millennium. The world's major religious and wisdom traditions are
built upon the recognition of transcendent meaning, and our own
cultural and linguistic heritage has long since absorbed the
postcosmological division of reality into the two dimensions of
'transcendence' and 'immanence.' But the last three centuries in
the West have seen a growing resistance to the idea of transcendent
meaning; contemporary and 'postmodern' interpretations of the human
situation - both popular and intellectual - indicate a widespread
eclipse of confidence in the truth of transcendence. In
Transcendence and History, Glenn Hughes contributes to the
understanding of transcendent meaning and the problems associated
with it and assists in the philosophical recovery of the legitimacy
of the notion of transcendence. Depending primarily on the
treatments of transcendence found in the writings of
twentieth-century philosophers Eric Voegelin and Bernard Lonergan,
Hughes explores the historical discovery of transcendent meaning
and then examines what it indicates about the structure of history.
Hughes's main focus, however, is on clarifying the problem of
transcendence in relation to historical existence. Addressing both
layreaders and scholars, Hughes applies the insights and analyses
of Voegelin and Lonergan to considerable advantage. Transcendence
and History will be of particular value to those who have grappled
with the notion of transcendence in the study of philosophy,
comparative religion, political theory, history, philosophical
anthropology, and art or poetry. By examining transcendent meaning
as the key factor in the search for ultimate meaning from ancient
societies to the present, the book demonstrates how 'the decisive
problem of philosophy' both illuminates and presents a vital
challenge to contemporary intellectual discourse.
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