"Become Who You Are": Kierkegaard, Literature, and The Philosophy of Religion

University of Essex, May 15th

Mike McGhee Keynote lecture. Title tba

Stephen Mulhall Keynote lecture. Title tba

Mikel Burley (Leeds) ‘Human life is like that’: Wittgenstein and primitive religiosity

Jonathan Wood Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling and the Private Language Argument

Eleanor Helms (Fordham) Kierkegaard’s Analogy of Reader to Believer: The Hidden Work of the “What” in Literature and Faith

Jonathan Beale (Reading) The Kierkegaardian Nexus: Anxiety & Authenticity in Heidegger and Wittgenstein

Magnus Moar (Sussex) How Schellingian Idealism Shaped Kierkegaard’s Philosophy of "Becoming"

Adam Winck (Virginia) The Ethical Task of Silencing de Silentio

Chris Müller (Cardiff) Shamed into Being: The Return of Robinson Crusoe

Nicole Jerr (Johns Hopkins) Kierkegaard’s Antigone: The Limits of the Tragic and the Esthetics of Isolation

Melissa Blackie (Toronto) Authentic Existence and the Ways of Faith and Philosophy

David Dessin (K.U.Leuven) Face To Face With God: Between Spinoza And Kierkegaard, Between Reason And Imagination

Michael Burns (Dundee) Kierkegaard, Žižek, and the Ontology of Becoming

Alina Vaisfeld (New School) Kierkegaard, Bloch, and the Existentialist Concreteness of Utopia

Clare Carlisle (Liverpool) Humble Courage: Kierkegaard’s Knight of Faith

James Rodwell (Essex) ‘There is Nothing to Thank Me For’: Kierkegaard’s ‘Expression of Gratitude to Lessing’ in the Postscript

Timothy Secret (Essex) What He Is and Always Was? – Archetypical Individuation

Thomas Grimwood (Lancaster) The Problems of Saying Anything New: Authority and Invention in Quidam’s Diary