Hildebrand Project

Discussion of major personalist themes in Scheler, Wojtyla, Guardini, Stein, and especially Hildebrand. Panelists: Rocco Buttiglione & Josef Seifert Assigned Reading: Rocco Buttiglione. “The Political Praxis of Karol Wojtyla and St. Thomas Aquinas.” Text of a lecture delivered at the University of St. Thomas Houston. Further Recommended Reading: “The Political Praxis of Karol Wojtyla and St. Thomas Aquinas.” Entire text.

A panel discussion on Central Insights of Personalism. Key aspects of human persons including incommunicability, subjectivity, self-transcendence, solidarity, irreducibility, affectivity, embodiment, and sexuality. Panelists: John F. Crosby & Mark Spencer Assigned Readings: John F Crosby. “The Selfhood of person's thrown into relief through these ways of depersonalizing human beings.” in Selfhood of the Human Person. Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1996.

Robert Wood's Presentation "Beauty in the Tradition: Heidegger" at the Hildebrand Project's 2017 Summer Seminar: Retrieving Beauty.

Hildebrand Summer Seminar 2013: The Personalist Vision of Love and Marriage Day 3: Human Sexuality, Purity, Spousal Love (2/4) Dr. Maria Wolter

Hildebrand Summer Seminar 2016: The Past and Present of Christian Personalism Fundamental Ideas of Personalism II: Session 2: John F. Crosby on two important personalist voices: John Henry Newman and Romano Guardini www.hildebrandproject.org

"Dietrich von Hildebrand as a Philosopher of the Heart" is the third and final part of our 2012 Summer Seminar, taught by Professor John F. Crosby at the offices of First Things Magazine in New York City on June 7, 2012.

2015 Summer Seminar: The Struggle for the Person. Monday. John F. Crosby remarks on the personalism of John Paul II. Assigned Readings: Karol Wojtyla Love and Responsibility, pp 21-28; Karol Wojtyla Person and Community pp 209-217

Robert Wood's Presentation "Beauty in the Tradition: Jacques Maritain & St.Thomas Aquinas" at the Hildebrand Project's 2017 Summer Seminar: Retrieving Beauty.

Dr. John F. Crosby presenting, "Karol Wojtyla and Thomistic Personalism," at the Hildebrand Project's 2017 summer seminar: Retrieving Beauty.

Damian von Stauffenberg, relative of the famous Claus von Stauffenberg, mastermind of the 20 July Plot to assassinate Hitler, discusses Dietrich von Hildebrand's opposition to Nazism, and the importance of his recently published memoirs: My Battle Against Hitler. (May 6, 2015 | New York City)

His Eminence John Zizioulas, Metropolitan of Pergamon The Christian Personalism of Dietrich von Hildebrand: Exploring his Philosophy of Love. An International Conference, Presented by the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project, Hosted by the School of Philosophy of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. Rome, Italy. May 27-29, 2010.

Alice von Hildebrand's remarks at her 90th Birthday Celebration.

Alice von Hildebrand The Christian Personalism of Dietrich von Hildebrand: Exploring his Philosophy of Love. An International Conference, Presented by the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project, Hosted by the School of Philosophy of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. Rome, Italy. May 27-29, 2010.

Roger Scruton with D.C. Schindler and John F. Crosby on "Beauty in a World of Ugliness." October 10, 2018, at the Catholic University of America.

Roger Scruton, world-renowned philosopher, writer, and public commentator, delivered the keynote address of the Power of Beauty conference, entitled “Beauty and Desecration."

Roberta Green Ahmanson interviews Dana Gioia, poet, critic, and former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts at the Museum of Biblical Art on June 12, 2012.

Dr. Maria Wolter on the role of the heart and the will in von Hildebrand's vision of love. From the Hildebrand Summer Seminar 2013: The Personalist Vision of Love and Marriage Readings which were required for the session: - Dietrich von Hildebrand, The Nature of Love, ch. 2; - Dietrich von Hildebrand, The Heart, Part I, chs. 2 and 8.

"The Forgotten Voice of Dietrich von Hildebrand" is a lecture given by Professor John F. Crosby as part of our 2012 Summer Seminar at the offices of First Things Magazine in New York City on June 5, 2012.