Philosophy, Literature, and Politics: Essays Honoring Ellis Sandoz (Volume 1)

The essays in this collection honor Professor Ellis Sandoz, Hermann Moyse Jr. Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Louisiana State University, and founding director of the Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies, an institute located at Louisiana State University and devoted to research and publication in the fields of political philosophy, constitutional law, and Voegelin studies. Without the tireless leadership—both academic and economic—of Ellis Sandoz, who was one of Eric Voegelin’s early students and his first American doctoral candidate at the University of Munich, the thirty-four volumes of The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin would never have neared completion within only twenty years of Voegelin’s death. The authors of the essays, some of the most respected scholars in the field of political philosophy, hail from Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, and the United States. They have known Sandoz in a variety of ways: as former students, as beneficiaries of his work on constitutionalism, as fellow participants in the publication of The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, as philosophical colleagues, as participating members of the Eric Voegelin Society, and finally as friends. The essays, each written especially for this volume, are grouped into the disciplines of philosophy, literature, and politics and range widely across these subjects, exploring writers as diverse as Xenophon, Natsume Soseki, Freud, and George Santayana and topics ranging from the leadership style of Fran?ois Mitterrand and the Velvet Revolution to the nature of the Law and of the Political. Philosophy, Literature, and Politics is a fitting tribute to a man whose life’s work has been formed by commitment to the philosophical enterprise and by a conviction in Eric Voegelin’s contribution to that enterprise. The seventeen essays in this collection will be of particular interest to scholars of politics, comparative government, Japanese studies, political philosophy, and literary criticism. Contents......Page 6 Publisher's Note......Page 8 Preface......Page 12 I. Philosophy......Page 16 1. The Turn toward Existence as Existence in the Turn......Page 18 2. Hunting and Political Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Kynegetikos......Page 43 3. The (Anti-)Eschatological Perspective in Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalysis......Page 69 4. Eric Voegelin's Defense of Human Dignity......Page 89 5. Eric Voegelin and a New Science of Politics......Page 106 6. The Big Mystery: Human Emergence as Cosmic Metaxy......Page 117 II. Literature......Page 142 7. A Discipline of the Mind and Heart: Voegelin and Santayana as Philosophers of Experience......Page 144 8. Compactness, Poetic Ambiguity, and the Fiction of Robert Penn Warren......Page 161 9. Biographies of Consciousness: Péter Nádas and Eric Voegelin......Page 185 10. Imagining Modern Japan: Natsume Soseki's First Trilogy......Page 203 III. Politics......Page 222 11. The Concept of "the Political" Revisited......Page 224 12. Eric Voegelin on the Nature of Law......Page 238 13. A Classical Prince: The Style of François Mitterrand......Page 249 14. Common Sense and the Rule of Law: Returning Voegelin to Central Europe......Page 273 15. Civilizational Conflict and Spiritual Disorder......Page 300 16. Voegelin's Puritan Gnosticism and Bacon's Great Instauration......Page 317 17. History as Open Horizon: Eric Voegelin's Search for a Post-Imperial Order......Page 340 Contributors......Page 356 B......Page 360 D......Page 361 G......Page 362 I......Page 363 L......Page 364 N......Page 365 P......Page 366 S......Page 367 V......Page 368 Z......Page 369 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 : Péter Nádas and Eric Voegelin / Charles R. Embry Imagining modern Japan : Natsume Soseki's first trilogy / Timothy Hoye The concept of "the political" revisited / Jürgen Gebhardt Eric Voegelin on the nature of law / Timothy Fuller A classical prince : the style of François 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. '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.