Books
The Differentation of Authority: The Medieval Turn Toward Existence
Washington, DC:
Catholic University of America Press, 2012
Human Dignity, Education, and Political Society: A Philosophical Defense of the Liberal Arts
Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2020
A Philosophy of Belonging: Persons, Politics, Cosmos
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2023
Grief: Seven Philosophical Questions
San Antonio, TX: Self-Published, 2024
Book Chapters
Foreword, in Inherent Human Dignity: A Meditation and Defense
Glenn Hughes
Forthcoming
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2025
“Love and Sacramentality in the Work of David Walsh"
Personalism and Catholic Political Thought: Essays in Honor of David Walsh
eds. Richard Avramenko and Thomas Holman Forthcoming Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2024
Preface, in Figure of Modernity: On the Irregularity of an Epoch
Tilo Schabert Berlin: De Gruyter Press, 2020
“Belonging, Existential Authority, and the Commissioning that is Subjectivity: A Medieval Philosophical Anthropology.” In Subjectivity: Ancient and Modern
eds. R.J. Snell and Steven F. McGuire Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016.
Selected Published Papers
- “Eric Voegelin’s Philosophy of History: Universal Humanity and the Tension of Historical Consciousness.” In Science et Esprit. Vol. 75 (2023), 319-336.
- “Civility as Political Love: Likemindedness in a Time of Polarisation.” In International Political Anthropology Journal. Vol. 15, 2 (2022), 101-114.
- “Searching for History,” Wherefrom Does History Emerge? Inquiries in Political Cosmogony.” In VoegelinView.com, January, 2022.
- “David Walsh’s The Sacramentality of the Person.” Perspectives in Political Science. Vol. 50, 4 (2021), 224-228.
- “An Introduction to Human Dignity, Education, and Political Society: A Philosophical Defense of the Liberal Arts.” In VoegelinView.com, Oct, 2020
- “Dominium Auctoritas: Nihilism and the Political Community.” Voegelinview.com, November, 2018.
- “Communitas: Belonging and the Order of Being.” In International Journal of Theology and Philosophy, Vol. 79, 1-2, (2018), 194-212.
- “Politics as Secondary Belonging: Levinas and the Primacy of Fraternity.” In American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly91, I (2017), 73-94.
- “The Priority of Existence in Medieval Political Thought.” In VoegelinView.com, Jan. 2014.
Op-Ed
Selected Presentations
- “DEI and the Problem of Persons.” Invited paper to be presented at conference, “DEI: Including Religious Perspectives,” Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, October 2024.
- “Eric Voegelin as Philosopher of Belonging.” Invited paper to be presented at the European Centre for Political Philosophy of the Mathias Corvinus Institute, Budapest, Hungary, Oct. 2024.
- “Natural Law, Common Law, and the Absence of a Duty to Rescue: The Philosophical Foundations of a Liberal Politics of Responsibility.” Paper to be presented at the American Political Science Association meeting in Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 2024
- “Remarks on A Philosophy of Belonging.” Presentation at Author Meets Critics panel at the American Political Science Association meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 2024
- “Classical Education as Soulcraft.” Commencement Speech for Great Hearts Monte Vista North, June 2024.
- “Inclusion and Recognition: DEI and the Problem of Persons.” Paper presented at workshop for upcoming conference, DEI: Including Perspectives, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, October 2023.
- “Universal Humanity: Historical Existence as Belonging in the Cosmos.” Paper presented at the American Political Science Association meeting in Los Angeles, CA, September 2023.
- “Belonging as a Philosophical Theme.” Paper presented at Lonergan Summer Workshop, Paray-le-Monial, France, June 2023
- “Liberal Education as Invitation.” Commencement Speech for Great Hearts Northern Oaks, San Antonio, TX, June 2023.
- “Love and Sacramentality in the Work of David Walsh.” Invited paper, presented at symposium on David Walsh’s Thought, “Continuity Amidst Crisis: The Person in the Philosophy of David Walsh,” March, 2023.
- “Homologia and the Heuristics of Political Love.” Paper presented at the American Political Science Association meeting in Montreal, Canada, September 2022.
- “The Political Problem of Spiritual Dullness: The Case of Totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia.” Response to Martin Palouš and Flagg Taylor, American Political Science Association meeting in Montreal, Canada, September, 2022.
- “The Human Person, Civil Society and the State,” Invited Seminar Participant. Hosted by the Institute of Humane Studies, Dallas, TX, January 2022.
- “The Notion of Home: The Primordiality of Politics.” Paper presented at the American Political Science Association meeting in Seattle, WA, September 2021.
- “Remarks on Glenn Hughes’s From Dickenson to Dylan: Visions of Transcendence in Modernist Literature.” Roundtable discussion at the American Political Science Association meeting in Seattle, WA, September 2021.
- “Opening Remarks: Human Dignity as the Ground of Justice and Social Concerns.” Presentation given virtually at Justice and Social Concerns annual meeting, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, TX, February 2021