Manfred Henningsen CURRICULUM VITAE Personal Data: -

Manfred Henningsen CURRICULUM VITAE Personal Data: -

Manfred Henningsen
CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal Data:
-- Born 31 March 1938 in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
-- German Citizen.
Higher Education:
-- Research at Widener Library (Harvard), March-May 1967.
-- Ph.D. University of Munich, February 1967.
-- Studies in Political Science, Modern European and Eastern European History, German
Literature, Philosophy, at the Universities of Munich and West-Berlin, 1958-1964.
Positions Held:
-- Chairperson of the Political Science Department at the University of Hawaii (Manoa
Campus), Honolulu, Hawaii, 1979-1982.
-- Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii (Manoa Campus), Honolulu,
Hawaii, 1975- .
Visiting Professor, University of Bochum, Germany, April to July, 1977.
-- Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii (Manoa Campus),
Honolulu, Hawaii, Septemeber 1970-1975.
-- Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Stanford, California,
September 1969-September 1970.
-- Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Munich, Munich, Germany,
1967-1969.
-- Assistant to Eric Voegelin at the Institute of Political Science at the University of
Munich, Munich, Germany, January 1964-September 1969.
Memberships:
 American Political Science Association.
 Association for Asian Studies.
Manfred Henningsen
CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal Data:
-- Born 31 March 1938 in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
-- German Citizen.
Higher Education:
-- Research at Widener Library (Harvard), March-May 1967.
-- Ph.D. University of Munich, February 1967.
-- Studies in Political Science, Modern European and Eastern European History, German
Literature, Philosophy, at the Universities of Munich and West-Berlin, 1958-1964.
Positions Held:
-- Chairperson of the Political Science Department at the University of Hawaii (Manoa
Campus), Honolulu, Hawaii, 1979-1982.
-- Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii (Manoa Campus), Honolulu,
Hawaii, 1975- .
Visiting Professor, University of Bochum, Germany, April to July, 1977.
-- Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii (Manoa Campus),
Honolulu, Hawaii, Septemeber 1970-1975.
-- Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Stanford, California,
September 1969-September 1970.
-- Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Munich, Munich, Germany,
1967-1969.
-- Assistant to Eric Voegelin at the Institute of Political Science at the University of
Munich, Munich, Germany, January 1964-September 1969.
Memberships:
 American Political Science Association.
 Association for Asian Studies.
Manfred Henningsen
CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal Data:
-- Born 31 March 1938 in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
-- German Citizen.
Higher Education:
-- Research at Widener Library (Harvard), March-May 1967.
-- Ph.D. University of Munich, February 1967.
-- Studies in Political Science, Modern European and Eastern European History, German
Literature, Philosophy, at the Universities of Munich and West-Berlin, 1958-1964.
Positions Held:
-- Chairperson of the Political Science Department at the University of Hawaii (Manoa
Campus), Honolulu, Hawaii, 1979-1982.
-- Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii (Manoa Campus), Honolulu,
Hawaii, 1975- .
Visiting Professor, University of Bochum, Germany, April to July, 1977.
-- Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii (Manoa Campus),
Honolulu, Hawaii, Septemeber 1970-1975.
-- Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Stanford, California,
September 1969-September 1970.
-- Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Munich, Munich, Germany,
1967-1969.
-- Assistant to Eric Voegelin at the Institute of Political Science at the University of
Munich, Munich, Germany, January 1964-September 1969.
Memberships:
 American Political Science Association.
 Association for Asian Studies.
Manfred Henningsen: CurriculumVitae
PUBLICATIONS
(NOTE: ttr., i.e. title translated)
“Eric Voegelin’s Deconstruction of Race in 1933,” in: Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal,
(The New School for Social Research, Vol. l35, 2014) p. 207-222.
“The Death of Civilizations: Huntington, Toynbee, and Voegelin – three Variations on Theme,”
in: European Journal of Social Theory (Vol.17, May 2014), p. 147-164.
“Terror und Erinnerung” (Terror and Memory), in: Merkur (Berlin), Dec. 2013, p. 1116-1124.
“On the Ruins of Civilizations: The Regimes of Terror”, in: G. Hughes/P. Caringella (eds.),
Revolutions: Finished and Unfinished. From Primal to Local. London, 2013.
“Mass Killing and Memory: The Processing of the Past after World War II in Germany and
Japan”, translated into Chinese and published in the journal of the Nanjing Memorial Center,
Research on the History of Nanjing Massacre. Nanjing 2012, p. 79-88.
“Grossmacht Paranoia”, in: CICERO. Berlin 2012, p.
“Die Schönheit und die Hässlichkeit Amerikas – America’s Beauty and Ugliness”, in: Closer
than Fiction. Amerikanische Bildwelten um 1970 – American Visual Worlds around 1970.
Cologne: Ludwig Forum Aachen 2011, p. 150-159.
“Making peace, not war. The emergence of a new post-Holocaust Germany”, in: Baltic Worlds,
Stockholm (September 2011), Vol. IV: 3, p. 9+10.
Der Mythos Amerika (The Myth America). Frankfurt: Eichborn-Verlag 2009, 357 pages.
“The Varieties of Historical Memory: Germany and the Rest of the World”, in: E.-V. Kotowski/
R. Sonnenschmidt (eds.), Grenzgänge zwischen Politik und Religion. Festschrift for Claus
Bärsch. Munich: Fink-Verlag 2009, p. 169-183.
“Deutschland und Darfur”, in: P. Huse/J. Dette (eds.), Abenteuer des Geistes – Dimensionen des
Politischen. Festschrift für Walther Rothholz. Baden-Baden 2008
“The Dream Worlds of Tyrants”, in: K.-H. Nusser/M. Riedl/ T. Ritter (eds.), Politikos. Vom
Element des Persönlichen in der Politik. Festschrift für Tilo Schabert. Berlin 2008, p. 131-146.
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Voegelin and the German Intellectual Left. Munich: Occasional Papers No. 63 of the VoegelinArchiv at the Ludwig- Maximilian University in Munich 2008, 34 pages.
“Republic or Empire: On the American End and the European Beginning of Politics”, in:
Varieties of World-Making, Nathalie Karagiannis/Peter Wagner (eds.), Liverpool: Liverpool
University Press 2007, p. 17-41.
“Machiavelli and the Lack of Virtu in the United States and the European Union“, in: European
Studies Newsletter (Columbia University Council for European Studies), January 2006, p. 7-9.
Editor of Eric Voegelin, Hitler und die Deutschen. Munich: Fink-Verlag 2006. Introduction, p.
9-39.
“Rom+Jerusalem=Washington“, in: Kursbuch (Hamburg), No.164, 2006, p. 26-34.
“Gott und die Europäische Union”, in: Frankfurter Rundschau, 11 April, 2006.
“Über die Schwierigkeiten vergleichender Völkermordforschung oder Soll man das deutsche
Holocaust-Regime mit anderen Demozid-Regimen vergleichen?“ (On the Difficulties of
Comparative Genocide Research or should one compare the German Holocaust Regime with
other Regimes of democidal Terror?), in: Wege zur Politischen Philosophie. Festschrift für
Martin Sattler. Würzburg: Verlag Königshausen & Neumann 2005, p. 235-250.
“Das amerikanische Desinteresse an Europa” (The American Disinterest in Europe). Die Furche
(Vienna, Austria), 2004.
“Die europäische Schrumpfung der Menschheit. Die Aufklärung und die Entstehung des transatlantischen Rassismus” (The European Contraction of Humanity. The Enlightenment and the
Genesis of Trans-Atlantic Racism), in: Aram Mattioli (ed.), Die Intoleranz im Zeitalter der
Revolutionen. Bern: Orell Füssli 2004, p. 125-144.
Editor of Eric Voegelin, Das Ökumenische Zeitalter. Vol. 2: Weltherrschaft und Philosophie.
Muich: Fink-Verlag 2004 (the German edition of his Ecumenic Age). Afterword, p. 237-257.
“Demozid und Politik: Über die Funktion des Rassismus in modernen Regimen des Terrors”
(Democide and Politics: On the Function of Racism in the modern Regimes of Terror), in:
Barrieren und Zugänge. Die Geschichte der europäischen Expansion. Festschrift Eberhard
Schmitt. Göttingen: Harrassowitz-Verlag 2004, p. 208-225.
“Zivilgesellschaft und politische Religion” (Civil Society and Political Religion), in: Moderne
und Religion, ed. by M. Ley and G. Weiss. Munich: Fink-Verlag 2003, p. 101-113.
“Totalitarismus und politische Religion. Über die Sinndimension der modernen Regime des
Terrors”, in: M. A. Ferdowsi, D. Herz und M. Schattenmann (eds.) Von himmlischer Ordnung
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und weltlichen Problemen. Festschrift Opitz. Munich: Fink Verlag 2003, p. 27- 42.
“Totalitarianism and Political Religion”, in: Goethe Merkur 1/2003 (Goethe Institut-Inter
Nationes, Bonn), p.38- 44; this essay was simultaneously published in German, English, Russian,
French and Spanish.
“Voegelins Hitler”, Occasional Papers, 23, Eric-Voegelin-Archiv, Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversität, Munich, 2003, p. 1-25.
“The Political Philosopher in the Public Sphere”, in: E. Robert Statham Jr.(ed.), Public
Philosophy and Political Science. Crisis and Reflection. Lanham/Boulder: New York 2002, p.
91-105.
“Totalitarismus und politische Religion. Über die modernen Regime des Terrors”, in: Merkur,
No. 5, 2002, p. 383 - 392.
“The Place of the Holocaust in the American Economy of Evil”, in: Frank Trommler and Elliott
Shore (eds.), The German-American Encounter. Conflict and Cooperation between Two
Cultures, 1800-2000. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books 2001, p. 198-211. An abridged
version of this paper appeared in Swedish translation in: Svenska Dagbladet (May 29, 1999).
“Politics and Catastrophe. Why is the World so obsessed with German History?”, in: Community
and Crisis: the Case of Germany and Scandinavia. Ed. by Nina Witoszek/ Lars Traedgard. New
York: Berghahn Books 2002, p. 120-130; paperback edition 2004.
“Der Ort des Holocaust in der amerikanischen Ökonomie des Bösen”, in: DeutschAmerikanische Begegnungen. Konflikt und Kooperation im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Eds. Frank
Trommler and Elliott Shore. Stuttgart/ Munich: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 2001, p. 251-267.
“The Collapse and Retrieval of Meaning”, in: The Review of Politics, Vol. 62, No.4 (2000), p.
809-816.
“Das Erbe des Westens. Plädoyer für einen Wettstreit” (ttr. “The Heritage of the West”), in:
Merkur, No. 9/10 (2000), p.968-979.
Editor of E. Voegelin, Modernity without Restraint. Vol.5 of The Collected Works of Eric
Voegelin. Columbia/London: University of Missouri Press 2000; introduction, p.1-17.
“The Arendt-Voegelin Controversy on Totalitarianism”, in: W. Leidhold (ed.), Politik und
Politeia. Festgabe für Jürgen Gebhardt. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2000, p.189-197.
“The Improbability of a Clash of Civilizations”, in: Bochumer Jahrbuch zur Ostasienforschung
(BJOAF 23), 1999, p.107-117.
“Hitler und die Deutschen” (ttr. “Hitler and the Germans”), in: Merkur, No.12 (1999), p.11947
1198.
“Der Aufstand der Fundamentalisten” (ttr.”The uprising of the fundamentalists”), in: Merkur,
No.9/10 (1999), p.901-910.
“Et Skandinavisk Dilemma”, in: Svenska Dagbladet (Jan. 10, 1998).
“Das Jahrhundert der Demozide” (ttr. “The age of democides”), in: DIE ZEIT (Hamburg, June 4,
1998), p.39; reprinted in: Horst Möller (ed.), Der rote Holocaust und die Deutschen. Die Debatte
um das ‘Schwarzbuch des Kommunismus’. Munich: Piper 1999, p.137-144.
“Die politische Verfassung Europas”, in: Merkur, No.5 (1998), p.454-461.
“The Emerging Universalism of of Eric Voegelin”, in: The Political Science Reviewer, Vol.
XXVII (1998), p.97-115.
“Zögerliche Blicke über den großen Teich”, in: Das Parlament (Bonn, 18./25.7 1997), p.17.
“Konturen einer transatlantischen Ära”, in: Das Parlament (Bonn ,18.4.1997), p.16.
“Die Regime des Terrors”, in: Merkur, No.2 (1997), p.105-116.
“Civil Society in Germany and the Holocaust”, in: Littel/Geldbach/Colijn (eds.), The Holocaust.
Remembering for the Future II. Berlin Conference. CD-ROM Vista Intermedia Corporation,
Washington, D.C. 1996.
“Die Transformation Amerikas”, in: Merkur, No.5 (1996), p.389-399.
“Der Buchenwald-Komplex”, in: Merkur, No.1 (1996), p.81-84.
“Der deutsche Sonderweg -- am Ende?” (ttr. The German Special Way -- at an end?), in: Merkur,
Nr.5 (1995), p.379-389.
“Der heilige Mauritius und der Streit um die multikulturelle Identität des Westens”, Japanese
transl. of ...; in: Shiso (Tokyo), No.9 (1994), p.67-83.
"Eric Voegelin und die Deutschen", in: Merkur, No.8 (1994), p.726-730.
"Zivilgesellschaft versus Volk", in: Merkur, No.8 (1993), p.690-698.
"Civil Society versus Socialism", in: Modern Praxis (Seoul), No.12 (1992) ,p. 388-408.
"Der heilige Mauritius und der Streit um die multikulturelle Identität des Westens" (ttr. The holy
Mauritius and the Struggle over the Multicultural Identity of the West), in: Merkur, No.9/10
(1992), p.834- 845.
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"Democracy or the Promise of 'Civil Society'", in: M.Manermaa (ed.), Linking Present Decisions
to Long-Range Visions. Selections of Papers from the XI.World Congress of the World Futures
Studies Federation, Budapest, Hungary, May 27-30, 1990. Budapest: Research Institute for
Social Studies 1992, Vol.1, p.190-205.
"Die columbinische Wende. Anmerkungen zum Bordbuch und zu den Briefen"(ttr."The
Columbian Watershed"), in: Titus Heydenreich (ed.), Columbus zwischen zwei Welten.
Historische und literarische Wertungen aus fünf Jahrhunderten. Frankfurt: Vervuert Verlag,
1992, p.27-46. (= Lateinamerika-Studien, Vol.30/1+2, 1992).
"What is History and is it at an End?", in: Modern Praxis (Seoul), No.11 (1991), p.397-402.
"Civil Society in Germany after the Berlin Wall", in: Modern Praxis (Seoul), No.11 (1991),
p.403-432.
"The Legacy of Racism and the Role of the University", in: M.Tehranian (ed.), Restructuring for
Ethnic Peace in Hawai'i. A Public Debate at the University of Hawai'i. Honolulu: Spark
M.Matsunaga Institute for Peace, University of Hawai'i: 1991, p.70-75.
"Changing Political Institutions", in: The Futures of Development. Selections from the 10th
World Conference on the World Futures Studies Federation, Beijing September 1988, ed. E.
Masini et al., Paris: UNESCO, August 1991, p.435f.
"N. Machiavelli's Il Principe", in Kindlers Neues Literatur Lexikon, Vol.10; Munich: Kindler
1990, p.810-813.
"N. Machiavelli's Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio", in Kindlers Neues Literatur
Lexikon, Vol.10; Munich: Kindler 1990, p.806-808.
"The Politics of Purity and Exclusion: literary and linguistic movements of political
empowerment in America, Africa, the South Pacific, and Europe", in: B. H. Jernudd and M.
Shapiro (ed.), The Politics of Language Purism. Berlin/ New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1989,
p.31-52.
"The Politics of Memory: Holocaust and Legitimacy in post-Nazi Germany", in: Holocaust and
Genocide Studies, Vol.4, No.1 (1989), p.15-26.
"Democracy: The Future of a Western Political Formation", in: Alternatives, No.3 (1989),
p.327-342 and Modern Praxis, Tokyo, No.8 (1989), p.223-245.
"The Transformation of Europe", in: World Futures Studies Federation Newsletter, Vol.15, No.3,
#54 (1989), p.73-80.
"Die Republik ohne König"(ttr. "The Republic without King"),in Die Bilanz der Ära Reagan H.
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Wasser (ed.) ,Stuttgart: Klett, 1988, p.230-247.
"Schwarze Befreiungstheologie versus weiße Ziviltheologie"(ttr. Black Liberation Theology vs.
White Civil Theology), in: Gott und Politik in USA.Über den Einfluß des Religiösen. Eine
Bestandsaufnahme, K.-M.Kodalle (ed.), Frankfurt: Athenäum, 1988 , p.146-166.
"The Politics of Symbolic Evasion: Germany and the Aftermath of the Holocaust",in
A.Rosenberg and G.Myers (eds.), Echoes from the Holocaust. Philosophical Reflections on a
Dark Time. Philadelphia: Temple,1988, p.396-411.
"Die Linke und die USA" (ttr. The Left and the USA), in L'80 (1987), No.41, p.130-144 and
L'80 (1987), No.42, p.146-158.
"Zur Symbolik des Zweiten Weltkriegs heute" (ttr."On the Symbolism of World War II"), in
Merkur (1985), No.5, p.444-451.
"Die Welt der nordamerikanischen Sklaven" (ttr."The World of American Slaves"), in L'80
(1984), No.30, p.90-112.
"Risse im amerikanischen Deutschland-Bild" (ttr."Cracks in the American Image of Germany"),
in Merkur, (1984), No.3, p.356-359.
Habermas oder die Angst vor der Traumzeit" (ttr."Habermas or The Fear of Dreamtime"), in Der
gläserne Zaun, R. Gehlen/B.Wolf (eds.), Frankfurt 1983, p.24-31.
"Die neue pazifische Weltkultur" (ttr."The New Pacific Culture"), in Amerika liegt in
Kalifornien, M.Naumann (ed.), Hamburg 1983, p.181-190.
"Dreamtime or Hitler: The Reaction to Positivism in Social Science Inquiry". German version in
Unter dem Pflaster liegt der Strand (1983), No.12, p.75-102; English version in Occasional
Papers, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 1984, p.44-66.
"Vom Elend des europäischen Universalismus" (ttr."On the Misery of European Universalism"),
in Merkur (1983), No.8, p.894-902.
"Hawaiians, Haoles, and Locals: the Emerging Politics of Race", in Ka Huliau (1983), No.3,
p.4-5
"Das Theater-Dasein einer Ideologie" (ttr."The Theater Dimension of Ideology), in Materialien
zur politischen Bildung, 1981, p.34-37.
"The New Politics of History", in The Philosophy of Order; Festschrift for Eric Voegelin’s 80th
birthday, P.J. Opitz and G.Sebba (eds.), Stuttgart 1981, p.416-428.
"Amerika nach den Wahlen" (ttr."America after the Elections"), in Merkur (1981), No.1, p.1-13.
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"Das amerikanische Selbstverständnis und die Erfahrung des Großen Krieges" (ttr. "The
American Self-Understanding and the Experience of the Great War"), in Kriegserlebnis,
K.Vondung (ed.), Göttingen, 1980, p.368-386.
"Die Ideologie des Bicentennial" (ttr."The Ideology of the Bicentennial"), in Merkur (1976),
No.7, p.501-514.
"Die Wirklichkeit des Common Sense" (ttr."The Reality of Common Sense"), in Politische
Studien, 1975, p.385-402.
Der Fall Amerika. Zur Sozial-und Bewußtseinsgeschichte einer Verdrängung (ttr.The Case of
America--The America of the Europeans).Munich: List, 1974, p. 275.
"Im Ghetto der Geschichte" (ttr."In the Ghetto of History"), in Supplement to the weekly
German Newspaper DIE ZEIT, August 17, 1973, p.2-10.
"Das Amerika von Hegel, Marx, und Engels", in Zeitschrift für Politik (1973), No.3, p.224-251.
"Harold Laski und George Orwell", in Zeitschrift für Politik (1972), No.2, p.81-117.
Vom Nationalstaat zum Empire. Englisches politisches Denken im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert (ttr.
From Nation State to Empire: Political Thought in 18th and 19th Century England). Munich:
List,1970.
"A.Toynbee's Study of History", in Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon, Bd. V., Zürich, 1969.
"N.Machiavelli's Il Principe", in Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon, Bd. V., Zürich, 1969, p.2554-2559.
"The German Humboldt-Mausoleum", in the Special University Magazine of the Münchner
Merkur (July 8, 1969).
"Wilhelm von Humboldt", in Die Revolution des Geistes (ttr. The Revolution of the Spirit"),
J.Gebhardt (ed.), Munich, 1968, p.131-153.
"Political Thought in 17th Century England", Introduction to Zwischen Revolution und
Restauration (ttr. Between Revolution and Restoration, Munich, 1968, p.7-16.
"Divine Right of Kings: James I und Robert Filmer", in Zwischen Revolution und Restauration
(ttr. Between Revolution and Restoration), E. Voegelin (ed.), Munich 1968, p.17-46.
Menschheit und Geschichte. Untersuchungen zu Arnold Joseph Toynbees "A Study of History"
(ttr. Mankind and History: Studies on Arnold Toynbee's "A Study of History"). Munich: List,
1967, p. 159.
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Henningsen: Vitae
BOOK REVIEWS
(1979 – present)
“Two Prosecutors of Modernity”, Review of Richard Velkley, Heidegger, Strauss and the
Premises of Philosophy: On Original Forgetting; in: The Review of Politics, Vol. 74, No. 4
(2012), p. 697-700.
2011 John R. Hall, Apocalypse: From Antiquity to the Empires of Modernity. Cambridge/
Malden, MA: Polity 2009; in The Review of Politics, Vol. 73, No.2 (2011), p. 252-255.
2008 Dagmar Barnouw, The War in the Empty Air: Victims, Perpetrators, and Postwar
Germany. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press 2005; in: Shofar, Vol. 26,
No.3, p. 171-174.
2000 “The Collapse and Retrieval of Meaning”, review of Eric Voegelin, History of Political
Ideas, Vols. 6 ( Revolution and the New Science, Columbia/London: University of Missouri
Press 1998); Vol. 7 ( The New Order and Last Orientation. Columbia/London: University of
Missouri Press 1999); and Vol. 8 ( Crisis and the Apocalypse of Man. Columbia/London:
University Press of Missouri 1999), in: The Review of Politics, Vol. 62, No.4 (2000), p.189-197.
1999 “Reins of Terror”, comment on Ben Kiernans’ talk on comparative genocide; in: Honolulu
Weekly, November 17 - 23 1999, p.18.
1998 “Documenting Genocide”, review of Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking. New York: Basic
Books 1997, in: Honolulu Weekly, November 18 - 24 1998, p.15.
1998 “Deutscher Widerstand für deutsche Juden”, review of: Victor Klemperer, Tagebücher.
1933-1945. 2 Bände. Berlin: Aufbau 1995 und Nathan Stoltzfus, Resistance of the Heart.
Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi-Germany. New York/ London: Norton 1996;
in: Merkur, No.1, p.61-64.
1996 “Voegelin’s America”, review of Eric Voegelin, On the Form of the American Mind.
Baton Rouge/London 1995, in: The Review of Politics, Vol. 58, p. 625-628.
1995 “The Postmodernization of the USA”, review of Thomas Dumm, united states. Ithaca
1994; in: The Review of Politics, Vol.57, p. 557-559.
1995 Klaus Drobisch/ Günther Wieland, System der NS-Konzentrationslager 1933-1939..
Berlin 1993; in: Deutsche Politische Vierteljahresschrift, PVS-Literatur (1995), p.341f.
1994 "Die Einübung des Widerspruchs: über Harry Pross", review of H. Pross, Memoiren
eines Inländers. 1923- 1993. Munich 1993 and H.Pross, Protestgesellschaft. Munich 1992; in:
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Merkur, No.6 (1994), p.533-536.
1993 "Ja heißt Nein", review of Poleszynski/Galtung/Benestad, Ja til Norge; til Norden; til
hele Europa; til hele verden. Oslo 1992, in: Nordeuropa forum (Berlin), No.1,p.52.
1992 "Politics and Race Talk in Voegelin",review of: Thomas W.Heilke, Voegelin on the Idea
of Race. An Analysis of Modern European Racism. Baton Rouge/ London 1990, in : The
Review of Politics, Vol.54, No.4, p. 706f.
1991 "Die Pest, der Holocaust und die europ{ische Hemmungslosigkeit des Tötens”, review of
K.G.Zinn, Kanonen und Pest Opladen 1989; D.Stannard, Before the Horror. Honolulu 1989;
R.Rummel, Lethal Politics. New Brunswick 1990; H.Jäger, Makrokriminalität. Frankfurt 1989;
B.-A.Rusinek, Gesellschaft in der Katastrophe, Essen 1989; D.Czech, Kalendarium der
Ereignisse im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau. Reinbek 1989; L.Rosh/E.Jäckel, "Der
Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland”. Hamburg 1990; W.Linderer, Anne Frank. Frankfurt 1990;
in: Merkur (1991), No.3, p.245-249.
1990 "Souverän, mit Schwächen", review of: Gert Raithel, Geschichte der nordamerikanischen
Kultur, 3 vols., Weinheim 1987-89; in: Merkur (1990), No.5, p. 421-424.
1989 "Die deutsche Apokalypse", review of: K.Vondung, Die Apokalypse in Deutschland.
Munich 1988; C.-E.Baersch, Erlösung und Vernichtung. Munich 1987; D.Roskies, Against the
Apocalypse. Cambridge 1984; J.Hermand, Der alte Traum vom neuen Reich. Frankfurt 1988;
W.Gerlach, Als die Zeugen schwiegen. Berlin 1987; R.Wistrich, Der antisemitische Wahn.
Munich 1987; in: Merkur (1989), No.4, p.342-348.
1982 "Unfertiges Amerika", review of: Gert Raeithel, Go West. Frankfurt, 1981; H.Wasser, Die
Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Stuttgart 1980; H.v.Borch, Amerika--Dekadenz und Größe.
Munich 1981;in: Merkur (1982), No.6,p. 626-630.
1981 Comment on Glendon Schubert, "Some Implications of Evolutionary Biology for Political
Science"; Occasional Papers, Department of Political Science, UH, Vol.I, No.2 (1981),
pp.82-85.
1979 Tilo Schabert, Gewalt und Humanität. Freiburg, 1978; The Journal of Politics Vol.41
(1979), p.1019-1020.
1979 Rainer-Olaf Schultze, Politik und Gesellschaft in Kanada. Meisenheim,1977; Zeitschrift
für Politik (1979), pp.415- 417.
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Henningsen:
LECTURES/PAPERS
5 December 2014
UH Political Science Colloquium.
“Terror and Memory: Beyond the Uniqueness of the Holocaust.”
24 November 2014
Symposium: 100 Years World War One – New Insights to a Gobal
Catastrophe, Iolani Palace, Honolulu.
Paper: “The New Debate about the Beginning of World War I and
Contemporary Parallels.”
21 March 2014
University of Hawaii, Department of Religion. Conference on
”Violence, Non-Violence, and Japanese Religions: Past, Present
and Future.”
Paper: “Terror and Amnesia: The Processing of the Memory of
WWII in Japan and Germany.“
INVITED.
21 September 2013
UH Political Science Colloquium.
“Transcendence, Secularization, and the Ritual of Circumcision.”
15 December 2012
Nanjing Memorial, Nanjing, PRC.
Paper: “German and Japanese Memory of the Past”.
INVITED.
8 December 2012
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München (Germany).
Lecture: „ Eric Voegelins Neue Wissenschaft der Politik“.
INVITED
5 July 2012
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München (Germany).
Lecture: “Amerika, China und Europa im Jahr der amerikanischen
Präsidentschaftswahlen”.
INVITED.
19 July 2012
Attac, Flensburg: „Amerika, China und Europa im Jahr der
amerikanischen Präsidentschaftswahlen“.
INVITED.
April 21 and 25, 2012
Beijing Normal University and Beijing Foreign Studies University
Lecture: “Mass Killing and Memory: The Processing of the Past
after WWII in Germany and Japan”.
INVITED.
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31 Aug. – 4 Sept. 2011
Annual APSA Meeting, Seattle, WA
Eric Voegelin Society Panel Chair and Paper:
“The Origins of Evil and the Banality of its Perpetrators”.
21 July 2011
Jakarta State Islamic University, Jakarta.
“The Rebirth of Politics – 1989 and the Follow-Up Equivalences”.
INVITED.
19 July 2011
Center for Cultural Studies, Institute of Indonesian Studies, Jakarta.
Paper: “Decline of the West - The Paralysis of Politics in the
USA”.
INVITED.
30 May 2011
Der Club von Berlin, Germany.
“1989 and the Consequences.”
and EU”.
INVITED.
13 – 15 January 2011
University of Hong Kong, School of Modern Languages and
Cultures.
Conference: The Power to Heal, Ways and Obstacles to Collective
Reconciliation in Western and Eastern Traditions
Paper: “From Denial to Recognition and Reconciliation: The
Processing of the German Record of Evil.”
INVITED.
18 – 20 February 2010
University of Hong Kong, School of Modern Languages and
Cultures. Conference: “Translatio Imperii in the 3rd Millennium”.
Paper: “On the Death of Civilizations.”
INVITED.
18 – 20 March 2010
UHK, Conference: “Revolutions: Finished and Unfinished, From
Primal to Final.” Paper: “On the Ruins of Civilizations.”
INVITED.
15 – 22 March 2007
Jewish Museum in Berlin; Week on Darfur.
Keynote Address on Darfur: “Why Does Europe Neglect Conflicts
and Wars in Africa?”
14 - 16 Oct. 2004
European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Conference on Varieties of World Making: Europe and Beyond;
Paper: “Republic or Empire: On the American End and the
European Beginning of Politics”.
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11 Dec. 2002
University of Bremen, Germany.
Lecture: “On the Difficulties of Comparative Genocide Research.”
14 Dec. 2002
VI. Internationales Eric-Voegelin-Symposium,
University of Erfurt, Germany.
Paper: “Voegelin’s Hitler”.
18 Dec. 2002
Club of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Lecture: “On the Difficulties of Comparative Genocide Research”.
29 Nov. - 1 Dec. 2001
Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Vienna;
Conference on Gnosticism and Modernity (Symposium in
Commemoration of Eric Voegelin’s Centennial).
Paper: “Politische Religion versus Zivilgesellschaft” ( Political
Religion vs. Civil Society).
30 August 2001
University of San Francisco, Law School
Participation in a Symposium on Eric Voegelin and Political
Philosophy.
1 -5 September 1999
American Political Science Association,Atlanta,Georgia.
Paper: “The Arendt-Voegelin Controversy on Totalitarianism.”
15 - 17 April 1999
University of Pennsylvania, Conference on ‘The Future of
German-American History’.
Paper: “The Place of the Holocaust in the American Economy of
Evil.”
1 - 6 November 1999
German-Polish Youth Congress in Gauting and Dachau, Bavaria.
Keynote Address: “Violence in Politics: Genocide.”
11 December 1997
Lecture at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.
“The Regimes of Terror: The Holocaust and the Cambodian
Killing Fields.”
9 December 1997
Lecture at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
“On the Probability of a Clash of Civilizations.”
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28 - 30 November 1997
Colloquium on Genocide in modern History; StuttgartHohenheim (Germany).
“Demozid und Politik.”
3 - 5 October 1997
Conference on Communities in Peril: The History and Memory
of Crisis in Germany and Sweden; European University,
Florence, Italy.
“Politics and Catastrophe: Why is the World so obsessed with
German History?”
14 - 17 September 1997
German-Polish Symposium on Antisemitic Stereotypes in
Germany and Poland; Kracow (Poland).
“Der Holocaust als ‘Clash’ der Zivilisationen.”
The American Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago.
31 Aug. - 3 Sept.1995
“Between Philosophy and Common Sense: Voegelin’s Evasion
of Politics.”
23 - 25 June 1995
Berlin Colloquium (Hotel Kempinski, Berlin, Germany) on
Entente or Alienation: The Anglo-Saxons, the French, the
Germans — in a New World Order/Disorder.
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The American Political Science Association Meeting, New York.
1 - 3 September 1994
“Comments on Voegelin’s
first book (On the Form of
the American Mind, 1928)
and his views on
America.26 June 1994
American Friends of the Hebrew University 21st Annual
Academic Conference on "Fighting Bigotry through Education:
the Challenge of Xenophobia, Racism and Antisemitism", Los
Angeles, Cal.
"The Effect of the Holocaust on German Culture"
13 - 17 March 1994
"Remembering for the Future II", Berlin, Germany.
"Civil Society in Germany and the Holocaust"
2 - 5 September 1993
The American Political Science Association Meeting,
Washington,
D.C.
"Civil Society in Germany"
15 June 1993
University of Munich
"Zivilgesellschaft versus Volk"
3 - 5 September 1992
The American Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago
"Voegelin and the Plurality of Civilizations"
25 - 27 September 1992
Prague Colloquium on Political Philosophy
29 August - 1 September
1991
The American Political Science Association Meeting,
Washington,
D.C.
"The Recovery of Human Agency: Hannah Arendt, Eric
Voegelin and
the Revolution in Eastern Europe".
3 - 6 June 1991
World Futures Studies Federation. Regional Conference on
"Alternative Futures for Eastern Europe", Sofia, Bulgaria.
"Civil Society in Germany after the Wall".
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18 - 25 May 1991
Dialogues in Budva. The Summer School of Philosophy and
Social
Theory in Budva
,Yugoslavia.18 - 25 May
1991
"Civil Society versus Socialism".
30 August - 2 September
1990
The American Political Science Association Meeting, San
Francisco, California.
"What is history and is there an end to it?"
27 - 31 May 1990
World Futures Studies Federation, Budapest, Hungary.
"Democracy and the Promise of 'Civil Society'"
10 -13 July 1988
International Scholars' Conference, Oxford: Remembering for
the
Future.
"The Politics of Memory: Holocaust and Legitimacy in post-Nazi
Germany"
3 - 8 September 1988
10th World Congress of the World Futures Studies Federation,
Beijing, PRC.
"Democracy: The Future of a Western Political Formation"
24 June 1987
Universität Regensburg (Germany), Institut für Evangelische
Theologie. "Das Phänomen der politischen Religion in den
USA" (The Phenomenon of Political Religion in the US).
17 June 1987
Hessisches Literaturbüro Frankfurt, Literatur zum Evangelischen
Kirchentag.
Panel: Deutsche Identität nach Auschwitz" (German Identity
after Auschwitz).
29 May 1987
University of California at Santa Cruz.
"The Politics of Moral Evasion: Germany and the Aftermath of
the Holocaust".
14 June 1986
Conference on Religion und Politik in Amerika, Evangelische
Akademie Hofgeismar.
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"Die politische Dimension der schwarzen Theologie"
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4 June 1986
Gonzaga University (Spokane, Washington).
"The Post-Modern
Survival of Political
Philosophy".9 September
1985
East-West Center (Honolulu Hawaii), Cultural Learning
Institute.
19 June 1985
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Germany), Saarbrücken.
"The Politics of Purity and Exclusion".
"Die Linke und die USA" (ttr."The Left and the USA").
17 July 1984
University of Munich (Germany), America-Institute.
"Amerika Images".
11 July 1982
University of Munich (Germany), Nordic-Institute.
"Zwischen Universalismus und Rassismus" (ttr."Between
Universalism and Racism").
16 June 1981
Hochschule der Bundeswehr (Hamburg, Germany), Institute of
Political Science.
"Zur Lage der amerikanischen Sozialwissenschaften" (ttr."On the
Situation of the American Social Sciences").
2 June 1981
Universität Erlangen (Germany), Institute of Political Science.
"Die Genesis Schwarz-Amerikas" (ttr."The Genesis of Black
America").
May-July 1977
Ruhr-Universität (Bochum, Germany), Zentrales
Sozialwissenschaftliches Seminar, Summer Term 1977: Visiting
Professor.
Courses taught
20 June 1973
(1) Political Philosophy;
(2) American Politics.
University of Duisburg (Germany), Department of Political
Science.
"Die Rückkehr der ersten Amerikaner" (ttr."The Return of the
First Americans").
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26 March 1970
South-Western Social Sciences Meeting (Dallas, Texas).
"Reason and Human
Nature in Contemporary
Political Philosophy". 25
February 1970
University of Manchester (United Kingdom), Department of
Comparative Religion.
24 February 1970
Scottish-German Society (Glasgow, United Kingdom).
"New Trends in Western Philosophy of History".
"New Trends in Western Philosophy of History."
19 February 1970
German Institute (London,United Kingdom).
"Crisis of Pluralism".
17 February 1970
University of Sussex (United Kingdom), Department of Political
Science.
"Crisis of Pluralism".
16 February 1970
University of Reading (United Kingdom), Department of
German
Language.
"Crisis of Pluralism".
17 May 1968
University of Vienna (Austria), Department of History.
"Toynbees Geschichte der Menschheit" (ttr."Toynbee's History
of
Mankind").
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Manfred Henningsen
Ph.D. students, Chair:
Steven DeBurger (2012)
Patrick Johnston (2013)
Takashi Izumi (2014)
Shentu Yujing (current)
Ph.D. students, committee member:
Ponipate Rokolekutu (current)
Wumaier Yilami (current)
Igor Nikitin (current)
Kim De Vidts (current)
Agussalim Burhanuddin (current)
Whi Chang (current)
Rex Troumbley (2015)
Timothy Conkling (2014)
Hyeonju Son (2013)
Martin Schwab (2012)
Syed Raza (2012)
Outside Member (University Representative)
Pardo Alejandro Barcenas (2011)
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