Political Science: Recent submissions

  • Periagoge : liberal education in the modern university 
    von Heyking, John (Southern Utah University PressArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2010)
    Chapter contained in the book The Democratic Discourse of Liberal Education". One of the common criticisms of the contemporary university is that it lacks individuals unwilling or incapable even of conversing. Critics such ...
  • Obstacles to liberal education in the modern university 
    von Heyking, John (Southern Utah University PressArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2010)
    To be a teacher of the humanities at a university means participating in a community dedicated to enquiring into the good for human beings. As members of a community of teachers, scholars, and students, we share an ...
  • Politics between the Earthly City and the City of God in Christianity 
    von Heyking, John (Cardus Centre for Cultural Renewal = Cardus Centre pour un Renouveau CulturelArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2006-06-08)
    Paper presented at "The Cooperation of Church & State Conference" for the Cardus Centre for Cultural Renewal, Calgary on June 8-9, 2006. "Ever since Jesus stated his kingdom was not of this world, Christians have been ...
  • Law and religious pluralism in Canada : review 
    von Heyking, John; Moon, Richard (University of British Columbia PressArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2008)
    Book review of Law and religious pluralism in Canada edited by Richard Moon. The essays in this volume ponder the nature of religious freedom and pluralism in Canada. In addition to considering recent case law, the authors ...
  • Why exclude Oedipus? On the incoherent statism of same sex marriage 
    von Heyking, John (InterimArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2006-09)
    When Canadian parliamentarians reconvene the same-sex marriage debate this fall, they may wish to ponder the enormity of changing a law whose simple change affects the basic functioning of society. The political battle to ...
  • The Canadian political crisis 
    von Heyking, John (Ashbrook Center for Public AffairsArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2008-12)
    Canada faces a political crisis, and potentially a crisis of national unity, that it has never seen before. Harper’s Conservatives won a minority government in October. Yet, in just six short weeks, his government is facing ...
  • The riots of Ramadan 
    von Heyking, John (Ashbrook Center for Public AffairsArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2005-11)
    The riots of Ramadan strike at the basis of the French state and its political culture with possibly greater significance than the 1968 riots.The riots of Ramadan constitute a revolutionary moment for Europe, and people ...
  • Iran's President and the politics of the Twelfth Imam 
    von Heyking, John (Ashbrook Center for Public AffairsArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2005-11)
    Western observers need to be able to understand the ideological and religious overtones of the current situation in Iran. Ahmadinejad’s peculiar references to the Twelfth Imam are no mere eccentricity to be taken lightly. ...
  • Friendship and language 
    von Heyking, John (Valparaiso UniversityArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of LethbridgeValparaiso University, 2007)
    Americans, even when not stranded on their rooftops, seem to have lost the art of friendship. They seem to be unsure just what to do with a friend. They know how to unite their bodies, but not their souls. They seem to ...
  • From a wooded summit : learning to love through augustinian meditation in Ascona 
    von Heyking, John (Konigshausen & NeumannArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2004)
    This paper focuses on the way ... Eranos scholars used Augustinian symbols to explicate the tensional relationship between time and eternity, finitude and infinity, creation and God, and human being and God that Eranos ...
  • Friendship in light of the modern philosophical revolution 
    von Heyking, John (Redeemer Pacific CollegeArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2009)
    "Modernity constitutes a completion over antiquity in the sense that it establishes the incompleteness of philosophy in a way antiquity failed to see. If Socrates represents the greatestinsights of antiquity, Kierkegaard ...
  • “Sunaisthetic” friendship and the foundations of political anthropology 
    von Heyking, John (International Political AnthropologyArts and ScienceDepartment of Political ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2008)
    Aristotle’s friendship teaching has been called the “peak” of his moral teaching. His understanding of sunaisthesis (joint perception/awareness) as the activity of virtue friendship has been called the “peak of the peak”. ...
  • The charter and civil religion 
    von Heyking, John (Cambridge Scholars PressArts and SciencePolitical ScienceUniversity of Lethbridge, 2009)
    "Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, along with the Supreme Court, is the focal point for an evocation of civil religion ... The manner in which important constitencies speak of the Charter ... reveals an attempt ...