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Personalism for the Twenty-First Century

Essays in Honor of David Walsh

Edited by Thomas W. Holman and Richard Avramenko - Foreword by David Walsh - Contributions by Richard Avramenko; Corbin V. Cali; Matthew T. Cantirino; James Greenaway; Philip J. Harold; Herbert Hartmann; John von Heyking; Thomas W. Holman; John McNerney; Bartholomew Jerome Santamaria; David Sollenberger and Robert Wyllie

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.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 258 • Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-66695-887-4 • Hardback • March 2025 • $115.00 • (£88.00)
978-1-66695-888-1 • eBook • March 2025 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
Series: Political Theory for Today
Subjects: Political Science / History & Theory, Political Science / Religion, Politics & State, Political Science / Essays

Richard Avramenko is director of the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University and editor-in-chief of The Political Science Reviewer

Thomas W. Holman is interim director of Intelligence Studies and adjunct professor at the Catholic University of America.

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

The distinguished authors whose essays honour David Walsh and his work have produced a close and sensitive reading of a complex and subtle political philosopher. Walsh’s understanding of the person and of political life forms the tacit and sometimes explicit focus of essays on a wide range of authors, from Böhme and Kierkegaard to Strauss and Voegelin, and of subjects, from the American mind and realism in international relations theory to the COVID-19 event. This volume is a model for what a Festschrift can be.


— Barry Cooper, University of Calgary


Personalism for the Twenty-First Century

Essays in Honor of David Walsh

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Hardback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • 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.

Details
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  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 258 • Trim: 6 x 9
    978-1-66695-887-4 • Hardback • March 2025 • $115.00 • (£88.00)
    978-1-66695-888-1 • eBook • March 2025 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
    Series: Political Theory for Today
    Subjects: Political Science / History & Theory, Political Science / Religion, Politics & State, Political Science / Essays
Author
Author
  • Richard Avramenko is director of the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University and editor-in-chief of The Political Science Reviewer

    Thomas W. Holman is interim director of Intelligence Studies and adjunct professor at the Catholic University of America.

Table of Contents
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

Reviews
Reviews
  • The distinguished authors whose essays honour David Walsh and his work have produced a close and sensitive reading of a complex and subtle political philosopher. Walsh’s understanding of the person and of political life forms the tacit and sometimes explicit focus of essays on a wide range of authors, from Böhme and Kierkegaard to Strauss and Voegelin, and of subjects, from the American mind and realism in international relations theory to the COVID-19 event. This volume is a model for what a Festschrift can be.


    — Barry Cooper, University of Calgary


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