Description

The noted professor David Walsh has called for a new "personalist language of persons," with vast implications in a variety of academic fields. Moving away from a language that refers to persons as 'things', and seeks to find connections and relations within all of us. In Personalism for the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of David Walsh, a diverse group of scholars apply and extend Walsh's unique personalist approach to political theory, theology, and current events. It is a collection of refreshingly original essays for those interested in exploring the potential of a renewed personalist thought for addressing the crises of our afflicted age.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The New Personalist Language in Praxis
Chapter 1: David Walsh on the Form of the American Mind
Chapter 2: Kierkegaard on Friendship at the Culmination of the Modern Philosophical Revolution
Chapter 3: The Experiential Roots of the Innerworldly: The Place of Jakob Böhme in David Walsh's Personalism
Chapter 4: A Portrait: An Epiphany of the Human Person
Chapter 5: Luminosity Before Theory: Walsh on the Transcendence of the Person
Chapter 6: Rediscovering Persons as the Imago Dei through David Walsh's Philosophy of the Person
Chapter 7: The Luminosity of Existence and the Inside of History
Chapter 8: What Is a New Normal: Between Personalism and Biopolitics
Chapter 9: The Path to Mutuality: Eric Voegelin's Influence on David Walsh
Chapter 10: Classic Natural Right
Chapter 11: The Personal Being of Humanity: Voegelin and Walsh on Universal Community and Global Order

Product details

Published Mar 26 2025
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 266
ISBN 9781666958874
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 3 b/w illustrations
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Series Political Theory for Today
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Thomas W. Holman

Anthology Editor

Richard Avramenko

Contributor

Corbin V. Cali

Contributor

James Greenaway

Contributor

John McNerney

John McNerney is a Chaplain at University College…

Contributor

Robert Wyllie

Foreword

David Walsh

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