Frederick Wilhelmsen

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Frederick Daniel Wilhelmsen (1923 – 21 May 1996) was a distinguished Roman Catholic philosopher, noted, both as a professor and as a writer, for his explication and advancement of the Thomistic tradition. He also was an insightful political commentator, assessing American politics and society from a traditionalist perspective and an incisive political thinker, addressing many of the failings of secular-liberal democracy.

Career overview

Wilhelmsen was a professor at the University of Dallas from 1965 to his death in 1996. He also taught at the University of Santa Clara, the Al-Hikma University in Baghdad, the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, and lectured and taught classes at many other universities.

He was a prolific writer. Besides all the book publications listed below, he contributed articles to the following: America, The Angelus, The Commonweal, Faith & Reason, The Grail, The Intercollegiate Review, Modern Age, National Review, The Political Science Reviewer, Triumph, The University Bookman, and The Wanderer, among others.

He also was a founding editor of Triumph, a Roman Catholic monthly that sought the sacralization of American society.[1]

In addition to assessing American politics and society, he was inspired by and extensively reflected upon Spanish politics and society. Alvaro d'Ors, a notable Spanish political philosopher, wrote that Wilhelmsen, an American from Detroit, was "the best interpreter of Spanish traditionalism, a body of political thought also known as Carlism, after King Charles V (Don Carlos)".[2]

Wilhelmsen enjoyed a lively friendship and correspondence with Marshall McLuhan, who spent time at the University of Dallas in the 1970s.

Publications

Author

  • Hilaire Belloc: No Alienated Man. A Study in Christian Integration. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1953.
  • Man's Knowledge of Reality: An Introduction to Thomistic Epistemology. Engelwood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1956.
  • Omega: Last of the Barques. Westminster, MD: The Newman Press, 1956.
  • The Metaphysics of Love. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1962.
  • El Problema de la Trascendencia en la Metafísica Actual. Madrid: Ediciones Rialp, S.A. and Publicaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Navarra, 1963.
  • El Problema de Occidente y los Cristianos. Seville, Spain: Publicaciones de la Delegación Nacional del Requeté, 1964.
  • La Ortodoxia Pública y los Poderes de la Irracionalidad. Madrid-Mexico City: Ediciones Rialp, S.A., Colección O Crece o Muere, 1965.
  • La Evolución de los Cuerpos Intermedios, su Papel en la Hora Actual. Buenos Aires: Cruz y Fierro, 1967.
  • The Paradoxical Structure of Existence. Irving, TX: The University of Dallas Press, 1970.
  • Así Pensamos. Madrid: Editorial Tradicionalista, 1977 (published under the pseudonym "Un Requeté").
  • Christianity and Political Philosophy. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1978.
  • Citizen of Rome: Reflections from the Life of a Roman Catholic. LaSalle, IL: Sherwood Sugden & Company, 1980.
  • Persona y Sociedad, ed., Nilda E. Bonansea. San Luis, Argentina: Universidad Nacional de San Luís, 1984.
  • Being and Knowing: Reflections of a Thomist. Albany, NY: Preserving Christian Publications, 1991.
  • Under Full Sail: Reflections and Tales. Frasier, MI: Alcuin Press, 1996.
  • Los Saberes Políticos (ciencia, filosofía y teología políticas). Presentation by Miguel Ayuso. Barcelona: Ediciones Scire, SL, 2006.

Coauthor

  • Cicero and the Politics of the Public Orthodoxy. Pamplona: Universidad de Navarra, 1965 (with Willmoore Kendall).
  • The War in Man: Media and Machines. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1970 (with Jane Bret).
  • Telepolitics: The Politics of Neuronic Man. Montreal and New York: Tundra Books, 1972 (with Jane Bret).

Editor

  • Guardini, Romano. The End of the Modern World: A Search for Orientation. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1956 (trans. J. Theman and H. Burke).
  • Seeds of Anarchy: A Study of Campus Revolution. Dallas: Argus Press, 1969.

Selected articles

Notes

  1. Popowski, Mark D. (2011). The Rise and Fall of Triumph: The History of a Radical Roman Catholic Magazine, 1966-1976. Lanham, MD: Lexington.
  2. d'Ors, Alvaro (1993). "Horismoi & Aphorismoi." In: Saints, Sovereigns, and Scholars: Studies in Honor of Frederick D. Wilhelmsen, eds., Robert A. Hererra, Fr. James L. Lehrberger, O.Cist., and Melvin Bradford. New York: Peter Lang.

References

  • Allitt, Patrick. Catholic Intellectuals and Conservative Politics in America, 1950-1985. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993.
  • Ayuso, Miguel. "Frederick D. Wilhelmsen y España". Foreword to R.A. Herrera, James Lehrberger, O.Cist., and M.E. Bradford, eds. Saints, Sovereigns, and Scholars: Studies in Honor of Frederick D. Wilhelmsen. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1993.
  • Ewbank, Michael B. "The Difference Diversity Makes". In R.A. Herrera, James Lehrberger, O. Cist., and M.E. Bradford, eds. Saints, Sovereigns, and Scholars: Studies in Honor of Frederick D. Wilhelmsen. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1993.
  • Henry, Michael. Introduction to "Christianity and Political Philosophy," by Frederick D. Wilhelmsen. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2014.
  • Herrera, R.A., James Lehrberger, O.Cist, and M.E. Bradford, eds., Saints, Sovereigns, and Scholars: Studies in Honor of Frederick D. Wilhelmsen. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1993.
  • Kirk, Russell. "An Adventurer-Professor". In: Confessions of a Bohemian Tory. New York: Fleet Publishing Co., 1963.
  • Lee, Patrick. Introduction to "The Metaphysics of Love," by Frederick D. Wilhelmsen. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2015.
  • Lehrberger, O. Cist. James J. "Christendom’s Troubador: Frederick D. Wilhelmsen", The Intercollegiate Review (Spring, 1997): 52–55.
  • Lehrberger, O. Cist. James J. Introduction to "The Paradoxical Structure of Existence," by Frederick D. Wilhelmsen. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2015.
  • Marshner, William. Introduction to "Being and Knowing: Reflections of a Thomist," by Frederick D. Wilhelmsen. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2015.
  • Nash, George H. The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America. New York: Basic Books, 1976.
  • Nelson, Jeffrey O. "Wilhelmsen, Frederick D.". In: American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia, eds., Bruce Frohnen, Jeremy Beer, and Jeffrey O. Nelson. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2006, pp. 921–923.
  • Popowski, Mark D. "The Political Thought of Frederick D. Wilhelmsen." The Catholic Social Science Review 20 (2015): 21–38.
  • Popowski, Mark D. The Rise and Fall of Triumph: The History of a Radical Roman Catholic Magazine, 1966-1976. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011.
  • Santa Cruz, Manuel de [Alberto Ruiz de Galarreta]. Apuntes y Documentos para la Historia del Tradicionalismo Español, 1939-1966. Madrid, 29 volumes, 1979-1991, volumes 22-II, 23, 25-I and II, 26 and 27.
  • Schaefer, Thomas. "Up from Alienation: The Wilhelmsian Vision of the Human Person". In R.A. Herrera, James Lehrberger, O.Cist., and M.E. Bradford, eds. Saints, Sovereigns, and Scholars: Studies in Honor of Frederick D. Wilhelmsen. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1993.
  • Schiller, Craig. The Guilty Conscience of a Conservative. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1978.
  • Unsigned. Frederick Daniel Wilhelmsen (Eminent Professor and Catholic Intellectual): A Tribute from the University of Dallas. Irving, TX: University of Dallas, 1998.

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