Philosophy, literature, and politics : essays honoring Ellis Sandoz / / edited by Charles R. Embry and Barry Cooper.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Embry, Charles R., 1942-; Cooper, Barry, 1943-; Sandoz, Ellis, 1931-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiv, 354 p.

"Festschrift honoring Ellis Sandoz, director of the Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies and editor of Collected Works of Eric Voegelin. Essays explore philosophy, literature, and politics, and focus on Xenophon, Natsume, Freud, Robert Penn Warren, and George Santayana"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

The turn toward existence as existence in the turn / David Walsh -- Hunting and political philosophy : an interpretation of the Kynegetikos / Barry Cooper -- The (anti-)eschatological perspective in Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis / Gilbert Weiss -- Eric Voegelin's defense of human dignity / Glenn Hughes -- Eric Voegelin and a new science of politics / James L. Wiser -- The big mystery : human emergence as cosmic metaxy / Brendan Purcell -- A discipline of the mind and heart : Voegelin and Santayana as philosophers of experience / Elizabeth Corey -- Compactness, poetic ambiguity, and the fiction of Robert Penn Warren / Steve Ealy -- Biographies of consciousness : Peter Nadas and Eric Voegelin / Charles R. Embry -- Imagining modern Japan : Natsume Soseki's first trilogy / Timothy Hoye -- The concept of "the political" revisited / Jurgen Gebhardt -- Eric Voegelin on the nature of law / Timothy Fuller -- A classical prince : the style of Francois Mitterrand / Tilo Schabert -- Common sense and the rule of law : returning Voegelin to Central Europe / Martin Palous -- Civilizational conflict and spiritual disorder / Michael Franz -- Voegelin's puritan gnosticism and Bacon's great instauration / Stephen McKnight -- History as open horizon : Eric Voegelin's search for a post-imperial order / Thomas Hollweck.