A New Collection of John William Corrington's Writings, Edited by Allen Mendenhall @allenmendenhall @UnivPressNG

Newly published: The Southern Philosopher: Collected Essays of John William Corrington (Allen Mendenhall, ed., University of North Georgia Press, 2017).

John William Corrington was an English professor (D. Phil, University of Sussex) and lawyer (Tulane Law) who became known as a writer of screenplays and poetry. With his wife Joyce, he wrote for such daytime dramas as Search for Tomorrow and General Hospital. The couple also wrote the screenplays for the films The Omega Man and Battle for the Planet for the Apes, among other films.

Professor Mendenhall's new book highlights Professor Corrington's writings on literature, law, and society.

Here's a link to an interview with Professor Mendenhall on his research for the book.

Here's Richard Bishirjian's review of the new collection from Anamnesis. 

Voegelin and Metaphor

Glenn Hughes has published Voegelin's Use of Metaphor as an APSA 2011 Annual Meeting paper. Here is the abstract.

This paper discusses Eric Voegelin's use of key metaphors at the core of his philosophy of existence. After a look at Voegeli's notion of "symbol," it offers definitions of analogy and metaphor, then goes on to introduce notions of "existential metaphors" and "primal metaphors," the latter defined as those pertaining to transcendence or to human participation in transcendence. Voegelin's choice to rely in his philosophy on primal metaphors such as "the Beyond" and " the In-Between" is examined, and this choice is finally related to his openness to and analyses of myth.

Download the paper from SSRN at the link.