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…
The Question Posed by Locke For John Locke, the foundation of the social contract was not a problem because it was identical with the moral law. The…
All of the critiques point toward the fundamental objection that Nietzsche was to express so powerfully. That is, that liberal politics had cut itself off from its…
Customary Liberal Silence Discussion of an existential depth to our discourse inevitably engenders a degree of methodological discomfort. This is particularly the case among theorists whose occupation…
Tumbling Liberal Defense An awareness of the depth of the critique ranged against liberal theory is what has inspired its late flowering in our own time. Viewed…
In one sense liberal theory and politics have always been in a state of crisis. Even in its earliest appearance in the reflections of John Locke and…
Cultural Transparence The intense but narrow beam of liberal political principles cannot constitute the meaning of a civilization. There are simply too many questions left unaddressed. Despite…
The Politics of Liberty The summary essence of a liberal political order, which has remained fairly stable up to the present, sounds astonishingly spare. Generations of liberal…