Description: Dallmayr advocates a politics of the common good, which requires the cultivation of public ethics, open dialogue, and civic responsibility.
Brief description: Fred Dallmayr, Emeritus Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Science at Notre Dame University, is the author or editor of numerous books, including In Search of the Good Life: A Pedagogy for Troubled Times.
Review Quotes:
Being in the World provides a philosophically grounded, politically sensitive, and multidimensional argument for an ethical engagement with the challenges of the age, especially those generated by the compression of time and space that creates the experience and problems of a globalizing world. Dallmayr is undoubtedly one of the most learned and coherent interpreters of how to live together on the planet in a manner that honors diversity. He writes from a deeply humanist perspective, endowed with the awareness that spirituality is an authentic component of lived experience, and so there is implicit in his work the reconciliation of religion, science, and rationalism.
--Richard A. Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Emeritus, Princeton University