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

• 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

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.