Dr. Meins G.S. Coetsier
Sint-Pietersplein 5, room 1.01
Address: Sint-Pietersplein 6, B-9000 GHENT (Belgium)
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Research
Meins G. S. Coetsier obtained his B.A. in philosophy in 2004 and was awarded Master of Arts in Philosophy, at The Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy in Dublin, Ireland in 2006. In 2008, he was awarded Doctor of Philosophy at Ghent University (Department of Philosophy and moral sciences) with a study on Eric Voegelin, with the title "Eric Voegelin's Philosophy of Luminous Participation in the Transcendent Ground of Being." Coetsier is director of EVS, The centre of Eric Voegelin Studies at the Ugent and is staff member and researcher at the EHOC. His current PhD research (FWO) is on the thinker and mystic Etty Hillesum and her Letters and Diaries.
Selected publications
Meins G. S. Coetsier, The Flow of Presence: An analysis of the Philosophy of Eric Voegelin, As Illustrated in the Life of Etty Hillesum (thesis The Milltown College of Theology and Philosophy Dublin, 2006).
____________, "Heaven in Hell": A Voegelinian Exploration of the life and writings of Etty Hillesum (prepared for delivery at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), August 30th-September 2nd, Chicago, 2007).
____________, 'Eric Voegelin's Philosophy of Luminous Participation in the Transcendent Ground of Being.' (Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Philosophy and moral sciences, Ghent University, Belgium, 2008).
____________, 'God? ... Licht in het duister: Twee denkers in barre tijden: de Duitse filosoof Eric Voegelin en de Nederlands- Joodse schrijfster Etty Hillesum,' in Etty Hillesum Studies: Etty Hillesum in context, red. Ria van den Brandt en Klaas A.D. Smelik, Assen, Gorcum (Brill), 2008.
____________, Etty Hillesum and The Flow of Presence: A Voegelinian Analysis, Columbia (Missouri), University of Missouri Press, 2008, 248pp.
____________, 'Etty Hillesum and the light of faith: a Voegelinian analysis,' in Modern Age, A Quarterly Review (Wilmington, DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), Inc.), Vol. 50, No. 3, Summer 2008.
____________, Etty Hillesum als hedendaagse spirituele figuur voor joden en christenen (Postacademische Vorming K.U. Leuven Vliebergh-Sencie Leergangen, Leuven, 2008).
____________, "God, the Creative Ground of Existence" In Voegelin, Etty Hillesum and Martin Buber: A Response to Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion (prepared for delivery at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), August 28-31, Boston, 2008).
____________, “You Consciousness”. Towards political theory: Etty Hillesum’s experience and symbolization of the divine presence. (prepared for delivery at the 2008 International Etty Hillesum Conference, Ghent University & FWO, November 24-26, Ghent, Belgium, 2008).
____________, A Heaven-Gram for World Politics: Hillesum, Heschel and Rilke rescuing God in exile (prepared for delivery at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), September 3-6, Toronto, 2009).
Links
Centre of Eric Voegelin studies (EVS): www.evs.ugent.be
Etty Hillesum onderzoeks Centrum (EHOC): www.ehoc.ugent.be
Flow of Presence Academy: www.flowofpresence.be
Missouri Press: http://press.umsystem.edu/spring2008/spring08.htm
APSA: http://www.apsanet.org/
Etty Hillesum and the Flow of Presence: http://hillesumflow.blogspot.com/
Short Hillesum video: http://video.google.com/videoplay
YOURISE: http://yourise.jimdo.com/
Wikipedia: Etty_Hillesum_and_the_Flow_of_Presence