David Walsh
Professor
Department of Politics
Catholic University of America
United States of America
Biography
A specialist in political theory, Dr. David Walsh is the author of a three-volume study of modernity addressing the totalitarian crisis, the resurgence of liberal democracy, and the philosophical revolution of the modern world. Intended as a guide to the multiple facets of the age in which we live, the volumes appeared as After Ideology: Recovering the Spiritual Foundations of Freedom (1990), The Growth of the Liberal Soul (1997), and The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence (2008).
Research Interest
The resurgence of liberal democracy, and the philosophical revolution of the modern world.
Publications
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Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Vol. XXVI: Crisis and the Apocalypse of Man. University of Missouri Press (1999).
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"Theory and Practice as Responsibility." Perspectives on Politics 42:1 (2013).
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"Dignity as an Eschatological Concept." From Understanding Human Dignity, ed. Christopher McCrudden. Oxford University Press (2013).
