David Walsh’s The Modern Philosophical Revolution: James Schall
This is why we are engaged in a drama of which we are not the source, and we sense the importance of responding rightly to the pull…
This is why we are engaged in a drama of which we are not the source, and we sense the importance of responding rightly to the pull…
This is a great book. Period. But it is also a difficult book, much like the term post-modernity, with which this book certainly deals (although it mainly…
Aware that our chair and at least one or two panelists would provide an overview of not only the manner in which Prof. Walsh (David) unfolds his…
My first contact with David Walsh was when I was working on my own MA a century ago. One of his big interests then was a love…
Professor Walsh has written an unsettling, unusual, and in some ways audacious book. We all are used by now to the many tellings and re-tellings of the…
I have learned more from this book, philosophically, than from any book in years. I do find its central hypothesis persuasive. And not only does it often…
A few weeks ago, we touched on The Art of Memory, by Frances Yates, well known scholar of the Renaissance. When that book came out in 1966,…
While virtually everyone has agreed that the American founding and the generation that achieved it were extraordinary, of towering significance and formative importance in modern history, what…
Hannah Coulter. Wendell Berry. New York: Shoemaker and Hoard (imprint of Avalon Publishing Group,Inc.), 2004-2008. The rise of techno-capitalism has signaled the triumph of the “bourgeois…
One of the most interesting theoretical problems, however, which indeed is at the basis of [the German churches' cooperation with the Nazi government]—the intellectual slovenliness and sloppiness,…