David Walsh is professor of politics at The Catholic University of America. The editor of three volumes of The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, he has published numerous articles in political science and philosophy journals, as well as essays in anthologies. This is the third volume in a trilogy concerning the modern world that began with After Ideology: Recovering the Spiritual Foundations of Freedom and The Growth of the Liberal Soul.
1. Kant's 'Copernican Revolution' as existential
2. Hegel's inauguration of the language of existence
3. Schelling on the beyond of existence
4. Nietzsche: philosophy as existence
5. Heidegger's achievement despite the betrayal of philosophic existence
6. Existence without refuge as the response of Levinas
7. Derrida's dissemination of existence as difference
8. Kierkegaard: the prioritization of existence over philosophy.
