Person-Centered Politics: A Personalist Approach to Political Philosophy, by Eamonn Gerard O’Higgins

In Person-Centered Politics, philosophy professor Eamonn Gerard O’Higgins, LC, of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome, presents a personalistic perspective on politics. The book consists of an introduction and twelve essays that cover a range of topics such as human rights, the relationship between truth and politics, politics and religion, and political authority. O’Higgins aims to evaluate these political phenomena “in the light of and from the perspective of the individual person . . . and to evaluate to what degree the political processes and structures contribute to the personal flourishing of persons” (23). Each essay explores a certain theme in relation to person-centered politics. These essays can be read independently, but they have internal consistency and follow each other in a logical order.