Person-Centered Politics: A Personalist Approach to Political Philosophy

Person-centered Politics argues that politics today presupposes and imposes a caricature of the human person that inhibits and frustrates personal participation in an authentic common good of politics and society. It proposes a renewed vision of politics centered on the truth of human existence and not a politics that distorts and suffocates the human spirit.

Format: Hardback
Length: 458 pages
Publication date: 09 April 2024
Publisher: University Press of America

Person-centered Politics suggests that politics today, through its structures, processes, and institutions, tends to presuppose and impose a certain caricature of the human person that inhibits and frustrates a real sense of personal participation in an authentic common good of politics and society. In 12 chapters that touch on fundamental themes of political philosophy, Person-centered Politics proposes the social and transcendent dimensions of personal existence and their application to the renewal of politics today. The themes explore the commonly accepted assumptions of politics today and how a renewed understanding of the person can invigorate political discourse and action. In Person-centered Politics, the author is in continuous dialogue with some of the major contemporary philosophers and thinkers, such as Eric Voegelin, David Walsh, Robert Sokolowski, Vaclav Havel, Pierre Manent, Peter Simpson, and Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI. Detailed footnotes in each chapter provide reference to further sources of enlightenment and research.

Person-centered Politics proposes an outline for a renewed vision of politics that is centered on the truth of human existence, and not a politics that distorts and suffocates the human spirit, because, in the words of E. Voegelin, 'the right order of the soul through philosophy furnishes the standard for the right order of society—and not the other way round.

Weight: 798g
Dimension: 236 x 159 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780761874423