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Lecture:
"Hegel as a Source of Inspiration for Heine, Feuerbach, and Marx and the Revolutions of 1848"

With regard to politics, Hegel is often known as a reactionary thinker, keen to defend the state of Prussia of his day and the repressive forces of the Restoration. He is not usually associated with young radicals. However, in this lecture I wish to sketch how Hegel inspired a number of his students in Berlin to play an active role in the call for radical social change that culminated in the Revolutions of 1848. This lecture will be based on my recent book, Hegel’s Century: Alienation and Recognition in a Time of Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2021).
 
Nová Cvernovka, Tabuľa
Radčianska 1575/78, Bratislava
April 6, 2022

Keynote Speech:

“Humanities Education in a Globalized World and Our Modern Prejudices”

at the conference “Classical Education in the 21st Century: Challenges, Continuity, and Change”

Thales Academy, Rolesville, North Carolina
October 7, 2016.

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Søren Kierkegaard: Subjectivity, Irony and the Crisis of Modernity

An online course in Coursera

It is often claimed that relativism, subjectivism and nihilism are typically modern philosophical problems that emerge with the breakdown of traditional values, customs and ways of life. The result is the absence of meaning, the lapse of religious faith, and feeling of alienation that is so widespread in modernity.

The Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55) gave one of the most penetrating analyses of this complex phenomenon of modernity. But somewhat surprisingly he seeks insight into it not in any modern thinker but rather in an ancient one, the Greek philosopher Socrates.

In this course we will explore how Kierkegaard deals with the problems associated with relativism, the lack of meaning and the undermining of religious faith that are typical of modern life. His penetrating analyses are still highly relevant today and have been seen as insightful for the leading figures of Existentialism, Post-Structuralism and Post-Modernism.

To date more than 70,000 students from around the world have been involved in the course. The course is absolutely free of charge. No prior knowledge is required.
The course can now be taken on an on-demand basis, and thus students can start at any time and can follow the video lectures at their own pace.

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8 video lectures for the on-line course: Søren Kierkegaard: Subjectivity, Irony and the Crisis of Modernity

Interview

Eliana de Castro, "Jon Stewart: " Kierkegaard Has a Special Gift of Dicusssing Perennial Human Issues."

Fausto Mag., November 27, 2017

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Margherita Tonon, “An Interview with Jon Stewart,” The Leuven Philosophy Newsletter, vol. 14, 2005, pp. 71-77.

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“The Misnomer of Relativism in the Modern World: The Rise of Individualism"

in the online journal Culturico (21 May, 2021):

“What is it to be Human? The Dominance of Subjectivity,” in the online journal Aeon (2 November, 2020):

https://aeon.co/essays/hegel-and-the-history-of-human-nature

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“Entrevista al profesor investigador del Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre,”

Filosofia, Noticias, November 24, 2010

Universidad de los Andes, Santiago de Chile

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Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, “Hegel set med oprydningsalderens øjne,” Politiken, Kultur, February 9, 2008.

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Katalin Nun, “Guldalderens danske forfattere i engelsk oversættelse,” Information, Kultur, July 21, 2005, p. 17

Special Issue of the Kierkegaard Newsletter, no. 58, November 2011.

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The Completion of Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources

After more than a decade of work, the series Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources has now been completed.

The first tome of the series was published back in 2007, and now with the publication of volume 21, the three-tome Cumulative Index, the series is finally finished. In all, the series contains 58 individual tomes and a total of 1127 articles by more than 200 Kierkegaard scholars from around the world.

From 2007 until 2015 Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources was published by Ashgate Publishing (Aldershot). The final volumes of the series that appeared in 2016 and 2017 were published by Ashgate’s successor, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group (London and New York).

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The series Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources was published by Ashgate and Routledge

Overview of the Series:

Section I: Kierkegaard’s Sources
   
    Volume 1. Kierkegaard and the Bible
        Tome I: The Old Testament
        Tome II: The New Testament

    Volume 2. Kierkegaard and the Greek World
        Tome I: Socrates and Plato
        Tome II: Aristotle and Other Greek Thinkers

    Volume 3. Kierkegaard and the Roman World

    Volume 4. Kierkegaard and the Patristic and Medieval Traditions

    Volume 5. Kierkegaard and the Renaissance and Early Modern Traditions
        Tome I: Philosophy
        Tome II: Theology
        Tome III: Literature, Drama and Music

    Volume 6. Kierkegaard and His German Contemporaries
        Tome I: Philosophy
        Tome II: Theology
        Tome III: Literature and Aesthetics

    Volume 7. Kierkegaard and His Danish Contemporaries
        Tome I: Philosophy, Politics and Social Theory
        Tome II: Theology
        Tome III: Literature, Drama and Aesthetics

 
Section II: Kierkegaard Reception

    Volume 8. Kierkegaard’s International Reception
        Tome I: Northern and Western Europe
        Tome II: Southern, Central and Eastern Europe
        Tome III: The Near East, Asia, Australia, and the Americas

    Volume 9. Kierkegaard’s Influence on Existentialism

    Volume 10. Kierkegaard’s Influence on Theology
        Tome I: German Protestant Theology
        Tome II: Anglophone and Scandinavian Protestant Theology    
        Tome III: Catholic and Jewish Theology

    Volume 11. Kierkegaard’s Influence on Philosophy
        Tome I: German and Scandinavian Philosophy
        Tome II. Francophone Philosophy
        Tome III: Anglophone Philosophy

    Volume 12. Kierkegaard’s Influence on Literature and Criticism
        Tome I: The Germanophone World
        Tome II: Denmark
        Tome III: Sweden and Norway
        Tome IV: The Anglophone World
        Tome V. The Romance Languages, Central and Eastern Europe

    Volume 13. Kierkegaard’s Influence on the Social Sciences

    Volume 14. Kierkegaard’s Influence on Social-Political Thought

Section III: Kierkegaard Resources

    Volume 15. Kierkegaard’s Concepts
        Tome I: Absolute to Church
        Tome II: Classicism to Enthusiasm
        Tome III: Envy to Incognito
        Tome IV: Individual to Novel
        Tome V: Objectivity to Sacrifice
        Tome VI: Salvation to Writing

    Volume 16. Kierkegaard’s Literary Figures and Motifs
        Tome I: Agamemnon to Guadalquivir
        Tome II: Gulliver to Zerlina

    Volume 17. Kierkegaard’s Pseudonyms

    Volume 18. Kierkegaard Secondary Literature
        Tome I: Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish and Dutch
        Tome II: English, A-K
        Tome III: English, L-Z
        Tome IV: Finnish, French, Galician and German
        Tome V: Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, and Polish
        Tome VI: Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish

    Volume 19. Kierkegaard Bibliography
        Tome I: Afrikaans to Dutch
        Tome II: English
        Tome III: Estonian to Hebrew
        Tome IV: Hungarian to Korean
        Tome V: Latvian to Ukrainian
        Tome VI: Figures A-H
        Tome VII: Figures I-Z

    Volume 20. The Auction Catalogue of Kierkegaard’s Library

    Volume 21. Cumulative Index
        Tome I: Index of Names, A-K
        Tome II: Index of Subjects, L-Z
        Tome III: Index of Subjects. Overview of the Articles in the Series

Reviews
"The near completion of Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources (KRSRR) marks the success
of a project—clearly the largest body of interconnected secondary literature ever published in Kierkegaard Studies—that would hardly have seen the light of day, had it not been for the bold initiative and steadfast stewardship of Jon Stewart of the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre in Copenhagen."
Poul Houe, “Kierkegaard Sources, Influences, and Reception in the Present Age of Inter-texts and –textuality,”
Søren Kierkegaard Newsletter, no. 63, 2014, pp. 2-12.

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“…cette collection est une source incroyablement riche d’informations. On peut y trouver toutes les indications nécessaires, rassemblées le plus exhaustivement possible, sur le rapport de Kierkegaard à ses sources, Socrate, par exemple, Luther ou Lessing, ou encore Shakespeare ou Mozart; sur la manière dont les auteurs venant après lui l’ont lu et interprété, que ce soit Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, Barth ou Bonhoeffer, ou encore Kafka, Strindberg, Ibsen, Frisch ou Dürrenmatt.”
Pierre Bühler, Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie, vol. 145, 2013, p. 352.

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"This multi-volume reference work is a contribution of the highest caliber to academic research on Kierkegaard....The general editor Jon Stewart together with his co-editors must be thanked for orchestrating such a vast undertaking. Their work is nothing less than a largesse to the future of Kierkegaard scholarship."
Mads Sohl Jessen, Søren Kierkegaard Newsletter, no. 58, 2011, pp. 4-5.

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  "The series is the most important single collection of secondary literature on Kierkegaard to be published in recent years and it is possibly the most important ever published."

Will Williams, Religious Studies Review, vol. 35, no. 4, 2009, p. 252.

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