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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Voegelin"”.
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Political philosophy and the divine ground : Eric Voegelin on Plato.
… by examining how the political philosopher Eric Voegelin approached the Platonic texts. I argue that Voegelin's approach to Plato is distinct from other twentieth-century interpretations inasmuch as Voegelin understood Platonic philosophy as a divinely-inspired quest for the ground of being. In …
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Losing the Cosmos: Arendt and Voegelin on the Origins of Modernity
Engaging the work of Hannah Arendt and Eric Voegelin, two foundational twentieth-century political philosophers, I examine the historical origins of the loss of cosmos, interpreted here as the ongoing crisis of modernity characterized by alienation and Gnosticism. Three themes are discussed with …
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Political Mavens: Ruth Underhill, Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin, Gene Weltfish, Ella Deloria, and the Politics of Culture
… Mavens: Ruth Underhill, Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin, Gene Weltfish, Ella Deloria, and the Politics of Culture,' centers on how female anthropologists shaped political discourses in the twentieth century. The anthropologist has long been considered the handmaiden of imperialism, made most …
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Faith seeking understanding : the relationship between noetic and pneumatic differentiation in Eric Voegelin's political philosophy.
This thesis is a study of the philosophy of Eric Voegelin with particular focus on the relationship between noetic differentiation (particularly Greek philosophy) and pneumatic differentiation (particularly Christianity). The thesis begins with an examination of the recovery of transcendence in …
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Eric Voegelin's thought and its significance for political theology
The philosopher Eric Voegelin (1901-85) held that at the heart of an adequate political philosophy must be a philosophy of consciousness. This study discusses Voegelin's thought in its significance for "political theology", by which is understood that mode of theological thinking which focuses on …
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The Problem of Coming to Terms with the Past: A Post-Holocaust Theology of Remembrance
… critiques of Theodor Adorno and Eric Voegelin. It then extends these critiques into the ongoing discussion of post-Holocaust philosophy and theology, while introducing the speculative philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead as a helpful and appropriate means for continuing metaphysical …
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Race follows the American flag: A critique of the United States foreign policy during the Philippine-American War
… and would-be subjugated countries. Using Eric Voegelin's "theory of the state" as a foundation; this thesis will examine the conceptualization of racial identity in both American "culture" and its foreign policy and how this ideology has mitigated her apportionment with the country of the …
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A Queering of Memory, Temporality, Subjectivity: Subversive Methods in Audiovisual Practice
… 2009), by attending specifically to sound (Voegelin: 2010; Leimbacher: 2017) and breath (Quinlivan: 2012, 2015). Diffractive Listening is inspired by theories of diffraction (Haraway: 1991, 1997; Barad: 2007, 2010, 2014) which are reconfigured with a much-needed aural sensibility (Lipari: …
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Thinking Together about the Common Good: The Political Implications of Thomas Aquinas's Theory of Conscience
… viz. anamnesis. Political philosopher Eric Voegelin has also proposed this term as a way of understanding human nature qua rational and political. This chapter considers both the possibility and implications of this alternative term for the primary level of conscience and helps to clarify …
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Reimagining keening: an examination of the reinvention of Irish lament as a healing tool in the contemporary world
… Hackett 2011; Schulze 2012; Sterne 2012 and Voegelin 2014). The study also examines the spiritual ‘cosmology’ that could be identified in the discourse of the research groups and networks, firmly situating this study within the field of contemporary study of religions. This study …
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Fragile Normativity and the Politics of the Social Sciences, c. 1940-1975
… Chapter Two looks at how Alfred Schutz, Eric Voegelin, and Hans Kelsen laced together their philosophies of the social sciences with American democratic theory. Chapter Three follows Theodor Adorno back to the Bundesrepublik, examining how his reception ofWeber coincided with his thinking on …
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The Indistinguishability Between the Arbitrary and Non-Arbitrary Nature of Things in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
… creativity this uncertainty leaves room for. Voegelin accuses Hegel of providing his readers with imaginative history, but no history is void of imagination. Geurts utilizes the concept of sensoriums and Bourdieu’s notion of history becoming nature to show that any aspect of a nature that …
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Ironic American Exceptionalism and the Myth of the Open Self
… The Irony of American History alongside Eric Voegelin's and Woodrow Wilson's philosophical and political treatment of freedom, expressed through the ideal of American personhood. American entertainment continues to spread globally, and the spreading creates a wider nexus of efficacious …
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Examining the Nature of Socratic Citizenship: An Inquiry Into the Voegelinian Conception of Consciousness
… as the paradigmatic citizen through Eric Voegelin’s theory of consciousness. While scholars tend to ground the source of Socrates’ civic behavior in the self, I maintain that his<em> daimonion</em> is the very essence of his citizenship. Illustrating that spiritual openness endows him with …
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Being otherworldly in the world: Michael Oakeshott on religion, aesthetics and politics
… Oakeshott's conception of "Rationalism" to Eric Voegelin's idea of "Gnosticism."
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Who is it that writes? Poetry and the plural self
‘Who is it that writes?’ is the central question of this thesis, which consists of a creative and a critical component. The creative work “Letters to Mark” is an attempt to address the questions, as similarly formulated by the poet Fernando Pessoa; who, really, am I? How many am I and, who is it …