Jon Stewart


Ph.d., Dr. habil. theol. & phil.
Institute of Philosophy
Slovak Academy of Sciences

 

Curriculum Vitae Publications Current Projects Papers Given Web Links and Archive

 

 


Curriculum Vitae














Main Areas

Hegel and German Idealism

Post-Hegelian Continental Philosophy

Phenomenology/Existentialism

Kierkegaard and Danish Philosophy

Philosophy of Religion

Danish Golden Age Studies

History of Ideas

Western Civilization

Philosophy and Literature




Degrees Achieved
 
▪ 2007 Dr. Habil. (Philosophy), University of Copenhagen

▪ 2003 Dr. Habil. (Theology), University of Copenhagen

▪ 1992 Ph.D. (Philosophy), University of California, San Diego

▪ 1986 M.A. (Philosophy), University of California, San Diego

▪ 1984 B.A. (Philosophy), University of California, Santa Cruz




 
Current Position
 
▪ Researcher, Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences




Guest Lectureships

2014 Guest Professor, Philosophy Department, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City

▪ 2010 Guest Professor, Philosophy Department, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago de Chile

▪ 2005 Guest Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Iceland

▪ 2005 Lecturer, Denmark’s International Study Program, University of Copenhagen





Editorial Work

2023-present Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Filozofia

2023-present Editor-in-chief of the series, New Research in the History of Western Philosophy, Leiden and
Boston: Brill Rodopi.

2019-2022 Editor-in-chief of the series, Studies in the History of Western Philosophy, Leiden and Boston: Brill

Rodopi.

2011-present Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, edited by Heiko Schulz, Jon Stewart and Karl Verstrynge, Berlin and New York: De Gruyter.

2011-present Kierkegaard Studies Monograph Series, edited by Heiko Schulz, Jon Stewart and Karl Verstrynge, Berlin and New York: De Gruyter.

2007-present Editor-in-chief of the series, Danish Golden Age Studies. Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel’s Publishing House 2007; Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press 2008-2021; Leiden and Boston: Brill Rodopi 2021 present.

2005-2017 Editor-in-chief of the series, Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate. 2007-2016 and London and New York: Routledge 2016-2017.

2005-present  Editor-in-chief of the series, Texts from Golden Age Denmark. Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel’s Publishing House 2005-2007; Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press 2008-2021; Leiden and Boston: Brill Rodopi 2021 present.

2000-2004 Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, edited by Hermann Deuser, Niels Jørgen Cappelørn and Jon Stewart, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter 1996-2010.




 
Group Grants


Program: APVV

Philosophical Anthropology in the Context of Current Crises of Symbolic Structures

Project coordinator: Jon Stewart

Duration: July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2025

Read more about the project.

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2019-2022 Project leader, “Individual and Collective Subjectivity: Historical and Contemporary Issues,” cooperation of the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Philosophy at the Polish Academy of Sciences, supported by Inter-Academic Agreement, MAD (Medziakademická dohoda).

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2011-2014 Project leader for “The Nordic Network for Kierkegaard Research”
funded by
Nordforsk.
www.jonstewart.dk/nnkr.htm

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2005-2007 Project leader for “Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources”
funded by The Danish Research Council for the Humanities, a branch of the Danish Agency for
Science Technology and Innovation. Read more ⇒




 
Selected Awards and Grants
 

2023 Book Prize of the Slovak Academy of Science, category “Top-Level Scholarly Monograph” for An Introduction to Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: The Issue of Religious Content in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2022.

2022 Slovak Academy of Sciences Prize for Scholarly Work for 2021.

2022 Prose Award for 2022 for the category “Philosophy,” awarded by The Association of American Publishers for the book Hegel’s Century: Alienation and Recognition in a Time of Revolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2021.

2021 The Slovak Academy of Sciences’ Honorary Plaque of Ľudovít Štúr for Services to the Humanities and Social Sciences

2021 Cátedra Carlos Llano (The Carlos Llano Lectures), Departamento de Humanidades, Universidad Panamericana, Aguascalientes (two lectures)

2021 Book Prize of the Slovak Academy of Science, category “Top-Level Scholarly Monograph” for The Emergence of Subjectivity in the Ancient and Medieval World: An Interpretation of Western Civilization, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020.

2020 Book Prize of the Slovak Academy of Science, category “Top-Level Scholarly Monograph” for Faust, Romantic Irony, and System: German Culture in the Thought of Søren Kierkegaard, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press 2019 (Danish Golden Age Studies, vol. 11).

2020 Honorary title: Private Professor, University of Szeged, Hungary

2019 Book Prize of the Slovak Academy of Science, category “Top-Level Scholarly Monograph” for Hegel’s Interpretation of the Religions of the World: The Logic of the Gods, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018.

2017-2018 Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University

2016-2017 Research Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

2012 Visiting Scholar, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota

2011 George W. Utech Memorial Kierkegaard Seminar, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota

2011 Visiting Scholar, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota

2011 Honorary Member of the Sociedad Académica Kierkegaard, Mexico

▪ 2010 Honorary Member of the Biblioteca Kierkegaard Argentina

▪ 2008-2009 Fellowship at Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study

▪ 2007 Foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

▪ 2006 Visiting Scholar, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota


▪ 2005 Øresund Summer University Grant


▪ 2000 Inger Sjöberg Translation Prize from the American-Scandinavian Foundation


▪ 1995-1997 National Academy of Education Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellowship

▪ 1994-1995 Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Grant (for post-doctoral research at the Humboldt Universität
zu Berlin)

▪ 1993-1994 Belgian American Educational Foundation Grant (for post-doctoral research at the
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

▪ 1992-1993 Heinrich Hertz-Stiftung Grant (for post-doctoral research at the Westfälische
Wilhelms-Universität Münster)

▪ 1990-1991 Research Assistantship, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

▪ 1989-1990 German Academic Exchange Service Grant (DAAD) (for dissertation research at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)





Board Member

Mitarbeiter at the Arbeitsstelle Internationale Feuerbachforschung, Westfälische Wilhelms University, Münster (2021-present)

Advisory Board, New Kierkegaard Research, Rowman & Littlefield (2019-present). 

International Advisory Board, the Danish Yearbook of Philosophy, Copenhagen (2018-present).

Advisory board, Kierkegaard in Process, Copenhagen (2016-present).

See https://kierkegaardinprocess.com

Member of Scientific Council of the Research Center of Søren Kierkegaard’s Thought, The Pedagogical University, Cracow, Poland (2016-present).

Advisory board, Estudios kierkegaardianos, Mexico City (2014-present)

Academic Committee the Revista de Filosofia Moderna e Contemporânea da Universidade de Brasilia, 2013-present.

Academic Committee, El arco y la lira, Buenos Aires (2012-present).

International Board, journal, El títere y el enano. Revista de teología crítica, Buenos Aires (2010-2011).







Jon Stewart©2007-2023