?The reader can trace David Walsh?s own personal turn(s) as he participates in the conversation that Kant, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and others conduct. This is an intensely personal book about the person." ?John von Heyking, author of The Form of Politics
"[The Priority of the Person] is united around Walsh?s ambitious philosophical project, into which he hopes this volume will provide an entry. He succeeds in this endeavor. Although the book may still sometimes challenge lay readers, it is more accessible than its predecessors. It is therefore essential reading, as Walsh?s attempted vindication of modern philosophy and political liberalism demands engagement from those debating the merits and future of liberalism." ?Public Discourse
?These essays broach the topic of the person within diverse fields of academic expertise: the political, philosophical, historical, and literary disciplines. It is a comprehensive study of the person that does indeed both unfold and clarify Professor Walsh?s creative grounding of the inviolability of personhood. The book is also exceptionally informative about these fields of study. The second volume on the person as ?beyond being? thus is well worth the read.? ?VoegelinView
"With each new book, David Walsh?s formidable project broadens and deepens. His is a rare and elegant meditative reflection, grounded in a luminous appreciation of the inexhaustible dignity of the human person, and in the priority of practice, of lived experience, to all intellectual and theoretical abstractions. All in all, an intellectual gem not to be missed." ?Daniel J. Mahoney, author of The Conservative Foundations of Liberal Order
"[Walsh's] core contention is profound. It is an application of Voegelin's theory of the differentiation of consciousness, the idea that the more a civilization plays with complex distinctions, the greater the likelihood of its framing a humane politics. . . . The Priority of the Person is a significant challenge to Catholic integralism, and any variety of conservatism that would think to forsake modern liberty." ?Law and Liberty
?Walsh brings his previous searching reflections on the direction and content of philosophy to a brilliant conclusion in these memorable pages. This is a work of original intellect that serves to illuminate what a person is, how it is grounded in reality, and how it relates both to God and to the political order.? ?James V. Schall, S.J., author of The Modern Age
