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The Growth of the Liberal Soul.
- 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.
- Notes:
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- ISBN:
- 0-268-20966-9
- OCLC:
- 1523371346
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