The growth of the liberal soul / David Walsh.

Author/creator Walsh, David, 1950- author.
Format Book
Edition2025 edition.
PublicationNotre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2025]
Descriptionxxv, 386 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Liberalism.

Contents Part I Dimensions of the Problem -- Crisis of Liberal Politics -- Anatomy of the Crisis -- Irony of Liberal Nihilism -- Liberalism without Clothes -- Tumbling Liberal Defense -- Enduring Moral Authority -- Public Authority of Liberal Principles -- Depth Unspoken -- Nonfoundational Truth of Liberal Politics: Michael Oakeshott -- Continuing Resources of Liberal Tradition -- 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 -- Liberal Achievement of Order from Disorder -- An Embracing Order of Law -- Contemplating the Abyss -- Evocation of Liberal Consensus -- Minimum Consensus of Liberal Politics -- 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 -- ource of Liberal Appeal: Secular Christianity -- The Dignity of Rational Creatures -- Divine Stature of Man -- Transcendent Source of Liberty -- Part III Outline of a Renovation -- Iompleteness of Liberal Order -- Intimations of Transcendence -- Tradition as Quest for Its Source -- Participation as the Opening toward Order -- Transcendent Completion of Liberal Order -- Meditative Expansion of Limits -- Growth of the Soul -- Confronting the Conflicts of Liberal Society -- Disclosure in Actualization.
Abstract "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. David Walsh's groundbreaking work addresses a pivotal crisis in liberal democratic self-understanding, as many leading thinkers abandoned the search for a foundation in human nature or moral truth. Without a firm footing, proponents of liberalism could not explain its initial extraordinary success or the recent seeming unraveling of its own moral code. Instead, Walsh argues that Christianity and philosophy formed the original foundation for liberalism, and that only the ideals of service, self-responsibility, and the sacredness of each person can provide the grounding that liberalism desperately needs. As Walsh seamlessly weaves together the ideas of Hobbes, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Tocqueville, Nietzsche, and other leading thinkers, The Growth of the Liberal Soul crafts a compelling defense of liberalism and issues an inspiring call to see liberty not as an invitation to universal egoism, but as the pursuit of the greatest justice, freedom, and fulfillment for all members of the community" -- Publisher, page 4 of cover.
General note"With a new introduction"--Cover.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 363-377) and index.
ISBN9780268209612
ISBN9780268209605 hardcover
ISBN026820960X hardcover
ISBN0268209618 paperback
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNEpub3

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