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The Growth of the Liberal Soul.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Walsh, David.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Liberalism--Philosophy.
Liberalism.
Democracy.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (0 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
Place of Publication:
Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, 2025.
Summary:
In The Growth of the Liberal Soul, David Walsh provides a dazzling defense of liberalism by confronting the core difficulty of the liberal democratic tradition in explaining and justifying itself.
Contents:
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the 2025 Edition
Introduction
Part I Dimensions of the Problem
Chapter 1 Crisis of Liberal Politics
Anatomy of the Crisis
Irony of Liberal Nihilism
Liberalism without Clothes
Tumbling Liberal Defense
Chapter 2 Enduring Moral Authority
Public Authority of Liberal Principles
Depth Unspoken
Nonfoundational Truth of Liberal Politics: Michael Oakeshott
Continuing Resources of Liberal Tradition
Chapter 3 Utopian Forgetfulness of Depth
Liberal Invincible Rightness
The Illusion of Progress
Hollowness of Liberal Construction
Unsustainable without Tradition
Insufficiency of Critique
Part II Historical Sources and Resources
Chapter 4 Liberal Achievement of Order from Disorder
An Embracing Order of Law
Contemplating the Abyss
Evocation of Liberal Consensus
Minimum Consensus of Liberal Politics
Chapter 5 Struggle as Source of Liberal Richness
Locke's Reinforcement of Reason and Revelation
Rousseau as Theorist of Crisis
Hegel's Completion of Virtue with Concrete Order
Indispensability of Religion
Chapter 6 Source of Liberal Appeal: Secular Christianity
The Dignity of Rational Creatures
Divine Stature of Man
Transcendent Source of Liberty
Part III Outline of a Renovation
Chapter 7 Incompleteness of Liberal Order
Intimations of Transcendence
Tradition as Quest for Its Source
Participation as the Opening toward Order
Transcendent Completion of Liberal Order
Chapter 8 Meditative Expansion of Limits
Growth of the Soul
Confronting the Conflicts of Liberal Society
Disclosure in Actualization
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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ISBN:
0-268-20966-9
OCLC:
1523371346

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