
Member Profiles
David Walsh
Catholic University of America
Education
Ph.D., Government, University of Virginia (1978)
M.A., Philosophy, University College Dublin (1974)
B.A. in Philosophy, University College Dublin (1972)
AMA Presentations
(2024) “The Secret of Liberal Resilience.”
Publications
Books
(2020) The Priority of the Person. University of Notre Dame Press.
(2016) Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being. University of Notre Dame Press.
(2008) The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence. Cambridge
University Press.
(1999) Guarded By Mystery: Meaning in a Postmodern Age. Catholic University of
America Press.
(1999) The Third Millennium: Reflections on Faith and Reason. Georgetown University Press.
(1997) The Growth of the Liberal Soul. University of Missouri Press.
(1990) After Ideology: Recovering the Spiritual Foundations of Freedom. Harper/Collins. (2nd Edition in 1996 with Catholic University of America Press)
(1983) The Mysticism of Innerworldly Fulfillment: A Study of Jacob Boehme. University
Presses of Florida.
Selected Academic Articles
(2021) “History as Constituted by What It Cannot Contain: Israel and Revelation,” in Israel and the Cosmological Empires of the Ancient Orient: Symbols of Order in Eric Voegelin’ s Order and History, Vol. I, eds. Ignacio Carbajosa and Nicoletta Scotti Muth. Brill.
(2019) “Is Desire Desirable: The Question that Discloses the Person,” in Ciphers of Transcendence: Essays in Philosophy of Religion in Honour of Patrick Masterson, ed. Fran O’Rourke. Irish Academic Press.
(2019) “Memory as Confessio,” in The Presence of the Past: Essays on Memory, Conflict and Reconciliation, eds. Martin Palouš and Glenn Hughes. Academica Press.
(2018) “The Person as the Heart of Benedict’s New Evangelization,” in Religion und Politik in der freiheitlichen Demokratie, ed. Klaus Stüwe. Duncker und Humblot.
(2018) “On Hegel: Sorcerers and Apprentices,” in An Apocalypse of Love: Essays in Honor of Cyril O’Regan, eds. Jennifer Newsome Martin and Anthony C. Sciglitano, Jr. Herder.
(2017) “The Terrible Beauty of Transcendence: A Reflection on Easter 1916,” in Quarterly Review 106 (422): 159-78.
(2016) “The Turn to the Subject as the Turn to the Person,” in Subjectivity: Ancient and Modern, eds. R.J. Snell and Steven McGuire. Lexington.
(2016) “Why Kierkegaard is the Culmination of the Modern Philosophical Revolution,” in Christian Wisdom Meets Modernity, ed. Kenneth Oakes. Bloomsbury.
(2016) “Rights Talk: Prioritizing the Person,” New Oxford Review 9: 10-11.
(2014) “Science Is Not Scientific,” in Faith and The Marvelous Progress of Science, ed. Brendan Leahy. New City Press.
(2013) “Epic as the Saving Truth of History: Solzhenitsyn’s Red Wheel,” in The Human Voyage of Self-Discovery: Essays in Honour of Brendan Purcell, eds. Brendan Leahy and David Walsh. Veritas.
(2013) “Theory and Practice as Responsibility,” Perspectives on Political Science 42 (1): 47-50.
(2013) “Hope Does Not Disappoint,” in Hunting and Weaving: Essays on Empiricism and Political Philosophy Honoring Barry Cooper, eds. Thomas Heilke and John von Heyking. St. Augustine’s Press.
(2013) “Art and History in Solzhenitsyn’s Red Wheel,” in Life and Work of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Way to The Red Wheel, ed. Ludmila Saraskina. Russian Literature Abroad Press.
(2013) “Dignity as an Eschatological Concept,” in Understanding Human Dignity, ed. Christopher McCrudden. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013: 245-58.
(2012) “The Person and the Common Good: Toward a Language of Paradox,” in Human Destinies: Philosophical Essays in Memory of Gerald Hanratty, ed. Fran O’ Rourke. University of Notre Dame Press.
(2011) “Voegelin and Heidegger: Apocalypse Without Apocalypse,” in Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition, eds. Lee Trapanier and Steven McGuire. University of
Missouri Press.
(2011) “Response to Ralph Hancock,” Perspectives on Political Science 40 (1): 49-53.
(2010) “Response to Symposiasts,” Perspectives on Political Science 39 (3): 153-159.
(2007) “Voegelin’s Place in Modern Philosophy,” Modern Age 49: 12-23.
(2007) “The Unattainability of What We Live Within: Liberal Democracy,” in The Fragility of Democracy, ed. Anton Rauscher. Duncker & Humblot.
(2003) “Are Freedom and Dignity Enough? A Reflection on Liberal Abbreviations.” In Defense of Human Dignity, eds. Robert Kraynak and Glenn Tinder. University of
Notre Dame Press.
(2002) “Reason and Revelation in the Third Millennium,” Modern Age 44: 60-71.