Personalism for the Twenty-First Century

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 ReviewerThomas W. Holman is U.S. military veteran and Ph.D. candidate at the Catholic University of America

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.

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