The priority of the person : political, philosophical, and historical discoveries / David Walsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walsh, David, 1950- author.

Series:

Beginning and the beyond of politics

The beginning and the beyond of politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical anthropology.

Persons.

Physical Description:

xii, 357 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2020]

Summary:

"In The Priority of the Person, world-class philosopher David Walsh advances the argument set forth in his highly original philosophic meditation Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being (2015), that "person" is the central category of modern political thought and philosophy. This book is divided into three main parts. Beginning with the political discovery of the inexhaustibility of persons, it then explores the philosophic differentiation of the idea of the "person," and finally traces its historical emergence through art, science, and faith. Walsh argues that, although the roots of the idea of "person" are found in the Greek concept of the mind and in the Christian conception of the soul, this notion is ultimately a distinctly modern achievement, because it is only the modern turn toward interiority that illuminated the unique nature of persons as each being a world unto him or herself. As Walsh shows, it is precisely this feature of persons that makes it possible for us to know and communicate with others, for we can only give and receive one another as persons. In this way alone can we became friends and, in friendship, build community. In showing how the person is modernity's central preoccupation, and in demonstrating how it is only as persons that we can truly give ourselves to others and thus develop real community, David Walsh's The Priority of the Person makes an important contribution to current discussions in both political theory and philosophy. It will also appeal to students and scholars of theology and literature, and any groups interested in the person and personalism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: One. The Priority of the Person as the Modern Differentiation

pt. 1 The Political Discovery

Two. Are Freedom and Dignity Enough? A Reflection on Liberal Abbreviations

Three. The Unattain ability of What We Live Within: Liberal Democracy

Four. The Person and the Common Good: Toward a Language of Paradox

Five. John Rawls's Personalist Faith

Six. Dignity as an Eschatological Concept

pt. 2 The Philosophical Discovery

Seven. Voegelin's Path from Philosophy of Consciousness to Philosophy of the Person

Eight. The Turn toward Existence as Existence in the Turn

Nine. The Indispensability of Modern Philosophy

Ten. The Turn to the Subject as the Turn to the Person

Eleven. Why Kierkegaard Is the Culminating Figure of the Modern Philosophical Revolution

pt. 3 The Historical Discovery

Twelve. Epic as the Saving Truth of History: Solzhenitsyn's Red Wheel

Thirteen. Art and History in Solzhenitsyn's Red Wheel

Fourteen. The Person as the Opening to the Secular World: Benedict and Francis

Fifteen. Science Is Not Scientific

Sixteen. Hope Does Not Disappoint.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Walsh, David, 1950- The priority of the person

ISBN:

9780268107376

0268107378

9780268107383

0268107386

OCLC:

1137747710