Event Date: 26 November 2015
Institute of Education
Bedford Way
London WC1H OAL
The University of the West of England presents:
Rethinking Kierkegaard
Kierkegaard has always been a figure standing at the crux of contemporary thought. He has often been cast in the role of a Christian prophet bemoaning modernity’s refusal of radical revelation and transcendent paradox. In recent years, however, this interpretation has been challenged. A new Kierkegaard is emerging: militant and radical, but also wholly committed to the immanent powers of existence.
This event launches three new books which break open this new interpretation in striking ways: Kierkegaard and the Matter of Philosophy by Michael O’Neill Burns; Kierkegaard, Eve and Metaphors of Birth by Alison Assiter; and Kierkegaard and the Refusal of Transcendence by Steven Shakespeare. Though different in their approach, each of these works recasts Kierkegaard’s relationship to his idealist philosophical milieu and challenges exclusively Christian readings of his work. What results is a series of constructive visions of a writer with a dynamic ontology, which continues to provoke new thinking about politics, feminism, the body and the nature of God.
Welcome by Professor Alison Assiter (UWE):
Introduction by Dr Danielle Sands (RHUL):
Professor Alison Assiter (UWE):
Dr Michael O’Neill Burns (UWE):
Dr Steven Shakespeare (Liverpool Hope):
Response by Dr Danielle Sands (RHUL):
Audience Questions:
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The books
Kierkegaard, Eve and Metaphors of Birth (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2015)
By Alison Assiter
Kierkegaard and the Matter of Philosophy: A Fractured Dialectic (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2015)
By Michael O’Neill Burns
Kierkegaard and the Refusal of Transcendence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
By Steven Shakespeare
