Modern thought is sometimes presented as introducing a "turn to the subject" absent from ancient and medieval thought, although the schools of thought associated with Bernard Lonergan, Eric Voegelin, Leo Strauss, and the new natural law theory often find subjectivity already operative in the older forms. In this volume, sixteen leading scholars examine the turn to the subject in modern philosophy and consider its historical antecedents in ancient and medieval thought.

Introduction1.Subjectivity and Metaphysics in Voegelin's Reading of AristotleSteven F. McGuireResponse by Lee Trepanier2.Objectivity as Authentic SubjectivityElizabeth A. MurrayResponse by Matthew B. O'Brien3.Subjectivity without Subjectivism: Revisiting the Is/Ought GapSherif GirgisResponse by Mark Shiffman4.First and Third Person Standpoints in the New Natural Law TheoryChristopher O. TollefsenResponse by Amy Gilbert Richards5.The Claims of Subjectivity and the Limits of PoliticsRalph C. HancockResponse by Richard Velkley6.The Turn to the Subject as the Turn to the PersonDavid WalshResponse by Phillip Cary7.Personalism and Common Good: Thomistic Political Philosophy and the Turn to SubjectivityV. Bradley LewisResponse by Daniel Mark8.Existential Authority, Belonging, and the Commissioning that is Subjectivity: A Medieval Philosophical AnthropologyJames GreenawayResponse by Jeremy D. Wilkins