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Prologue: "Composed of wonders" : literature of the spirit -- Part I. The philosopher: One of my permanent occupations" : Eric Voegelin as literary critic; The attunement of the soul" : Eric Voegelin's search of order; Writer, reader, and the adventure of participatory consciousness -- Part II. The storyteller: The barren quest : Graham Swift's Waterland; "A secret between man and God" : second reality in Heimito von Doderer's The demons; Novel of divine presence : Flannery O'Connor's The violent bear it away -- Epilogue: "Our love of life, children, our love of life

As I began to write this paper, I was forced to confront, consciously, a fact which I had previously acknowledged only tacitly, viz., that there exists a plethora of issues — pedagogical, philosophical, political, and psychological, as well as disciplinary — which must be addressed. Not wanting to ignore any of these issues and in hopes of provoking a discussion of the role of the humanities in ethics courses, I have coached the paper in the form of "reflections". I shall first describe, without too much comment, the devising of such an ethics course and the general issues such a course raises, and secondly, I shall reflect upon the role of the humanities in such a course.

"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

Intro -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD Champlin B. Heilman -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- EDITORIAL NOTES -- INTRODUCTION -- The Friendship -- An Exemplary Year in the Correspondence -- DELIGHTFUL ACQUISITION Letters 1- 36, 1944- 1952 -- I. -- II. -- III. -- IV. -- V. -- VI. -- VII. -- WITH A HUMBLE REQUEST Letters 37- 57, 1952- 1955 -- PHILIA POLITIKE Letters 58- 87, 1956- 1959 -- HURRIED OVER THE FACE OF THE EARTH -- NOT A POSTSCRIPT AT ALL BUT A NEW ESSAY Letters 114Ò 29, 1969Ò 1972 -- WHAT WAS FORMED AT THAT TIME HOLDS TOGETHER Letters 130Ò 52, 1973Ò 1984 -- APPENDIX A Chronology of Letters and Locations -- APPENDIX B Number of Letters and Publications Referenced in Letters1 -- APPENDIX C Selected Enclosures in Various Letters -- INDEX.

This volume explores the role of some of the most prominent twentieth-century philosophers and political thinkers as teachers. It will examine what obstacles they confronted as teachers and how they overcome them in conveying truth to their students in an age dominated by ideological thinking