Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being

Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being

by David Walsh
Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being

Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being

by David Walsh

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Overview

Readers expecting a traditional philosophical work will be surprised and delighted by David Walsh’s Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being, his highly original reflection on the transcendental nature of the person. A specialist in political theory, Walsh breaks new ground in this volume, arguing, as he says in the introduction, “that the person is transcendence, not only as an aspiration, but as his or her very reality. Nothing is higher. That is what Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being strives to acknowledge.” The analysis of the person is the foundation for thinking about political community and human dignity and rights.

Walsh establishes his notion of the person in the first four chapters. He begins with the question as to whether science can in any sense talk about persons. He then examines the person’s core activities, free choice and knowledge, and reassesses the claims of the natural sciences. He considers the ground of the person and of interpersonal relationships, including our relationship with God. The final three chapters explore the unfolding of the person, imaginatively in art, in the personal “time” of history, and in the “space” of politics.

Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being is a new way of philosophizing that is neither subjective nor objective but derived from the persons who can consider such perspectives. The book will interest students and scholars in contemporary political philosophy, philosophy of religion, and any groups interested in the person, personalism, and metaphysics.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780268096755
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Publication date: 12/15/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 312
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

David Walsh is professor of politics at the Catholic University of America. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence.


David Walsh is professor of politics at the Catholic University of America. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015).

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 A Personalist Account of Persons 19

Chapter 2 Persons as beyond Good and Evil 53

Chapter 3 Reality Transcends Itself in Persons 87

Chapter 4 God as the Seal of the Personal 123

Chapter 5 Art as the Radiance of Persons in Reality 157

Chapter 6 History as the Memory of Persons 187

Chapter 7 Politics of the Person 221

Notes 257

Index 293

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