Calls for Papers
Call for Papers
Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook
The Kierkegaard Studies
Yearbook invites submissions for its 2013 issue.
The goal of these series is to advance Kierkegaard studies by
encouraging top-level scholarship in the field. Moreover, the
editorial and advisory boards are deeply committed to creating a
genuinely international forum for publication which integrates
the many different traditions of Kierkegaard studies and brings
them into a constructive and fruitful dialogue. To this end both
series will publish works in English, French and German.
All submissions should be
sent to the editorial secretary Peter Šajda at the following
e-mail address:
ksy@sk.ku.dk.
In order to be considered, all submissions must follow the
guidelines and formalia of the series, which are available at
the
De
Gruyter homepage.
All submissions will be blindly refereed by established scholars
in the field. Only the very best papers will be accepted for
publication. Potential authors should be prepared to make
changes to their texts based on the comments received by the
referees.
The deadline for submissions for the 2013 issue of the
Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook is October 1, 2012. (Please make
sure that your submission is in conformity with the guidelines.)
Call for
Papers
International Conference:
The Uses and Abuses of
Kierkegaard
October 14-18, 2013
Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy
Copenhagen Business School
In the history of the reception, Kierkegaard’s thought has been
used in the service of a wide range of intellectual programs in
a number of fields such as philosophy, theology, religious
studies, psychology and political science. In addition, we see
today social scientists who, reflecting on and designing
professional practices in management, business administration,
organizational studies and leadership, refer to Kierkegaard. For
example, his emphasis on human freedom, choice and
responsibility has led to him being co-opted by the
existentialists who hailed him as one of the forerunners of
their movement. Similarly, his use of irony, pseudonyms and
different literary voices has been seen as an early form of the
postmodernist dogmas of the death of the author or the deferment
of meaning. Likewise his views about the individual and society
have been an inspiration for thinkers with very different views
from both ends of the political spectrum. In recent years these
various “uses” of Kierkegaard have been called into question as
“abuses” by scholars who, trying to restore Kierkegaard to his
original context, have pointed out important distortions of his
thinking that have been made by those wishing to appropriate him
for their own set purposes. Yet the study of Kierkegaard cannot
be limited to a chapter in the history of thought. How then can
Kierkegaard inspire new thinking in contemporary fields; what
are the truly fruitful uses of his thought? This conference will
attempt to answer these questions by examining different
“abuses” of Kierkegaard’s thought in the different areas
mentioned above.
Proposals should be sent in the form of a brief one-page
abstract and a one-page cv to Camilla Sløk [cs.lpf@cbs.dk]
or Jon Stewart [js@sk.ku.dk].
The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2012
Call for Papers
Kierkegaard's Legacies
January 3-6, 2013
MLA in Boston
In the bicentennial year of the great Danish
philosopher's birth, the MLA Discussion Group on Scandinavian
Languages and Literatures invites papers for the 2013 MLA in
Boston (January 3-6, 2013) that consider Kierkegaard's legacy in
a variety of intellectual and comparative contexts. These can
include literary studies, philosophy, political science,
religious studies, rhetoric, psychology and others; submissions
comparative across language and historical period are
particularly welcome.
Send a 250-350-word abstract to
lindqvis@fas.harvard.edu by March 15;
responses will be issued by April 1. Those included in the panel
must become members of the MLA by April 7, 2012.
Call for Papers
Kierkegaard at Year Two
Hundred
The Challenge of the
Single Individual in the Present Age
A Special Issue of The
European Legacy
Edited by Mark Cauchi and
Avron Kulak
“Whatever one generation
learns from another, no generation learns the essentially human
from a previous one. In this respect, each generation… has no
other task than what each previous generation had, nor does it
advance further….”
-Kierkegaard, from the
Epilogue to Fear and Trembling
“The present age is
essentially… devoid of passion, flaring up in
superficial, short-lived enthusiasm and prudentially
relaxing in indolence.… [W]e must say of the present age
that it is going badly.”
-Kierkegaard, from “The
Present Age,” in Two Ages
This special issue of
The European Legacy, to be published in 2013, is dedicated
to celebrating the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of
Kierkegaard (1813-1855) by posing two questions: first, the
relevance of his thought for, and the challenge that he directs
to, the single individual in the present age; second, the
challenge that the present age directs to the thought of
Kierkegaard. In light of these questions, it is worth recalling
Kierkegaard’s conception both of the present age and of the
single individual. For Kierkegaard, because all generations
share the same task, each age, and each individual in each age,
is like every other in that they must take upon themselves,
singularly and distinctly, the tasks of their time. The present
age thus encompasses the history in which single individuals
respond to the issues and debates that distinguish their time by
establishing as its most fundamental priority what Kierkegaard
calls, in Fear and Trembling, the essentially human –
what he also calls faith, love, the neighbor, God: the absolute
relation to the absolute. Yet, according to Kierkegaard, the
present age and the single individual are characterized by their
already having shunned their essentially human task, by their
being divided against themselves, alienated from themselves, in
their superficiality and indolence. The present age, for
Kierkegaard, is thus an age of despair in which the single
individual who goes badly must engage in what he describes as
the task of coming historically into existence as the genuine
contemporary – the task of loving God and neighbor.
How, then, do we assess
the pertinence today of Kierkegaard’s assessment of and
prescription for the present age – both his own and ours? From
what standpoint do we even pose the question of the relevance of
Kierkegaard at year two hundred? In asking about the ways in
which Kierkegaard’s thought challenges us today, must we not
also ask about the ways in which, or the principles in light of
which, we respond to Kierkegaard? At issue is what it would
mean, today, to be a genuine contemporary – of Kierkegaard, of
the present age, of ourselves.
For this special issue of
The European Legacy we invite contributions on a wide
range of issues that examine the implications of Kierkegaard’s
thought for debates, issues, and questions that are central to
the challenge of the single individual in the present age.
Topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:
·
the
relationship between Kierkegaard’s critique of the present
age and contemporary critics of the present age;
·
the
relationship between Kierkegaard’s concept of single
individuality and contemporary questions of pluralism,
cosmopolitanism, and globalization;
·
the
relationship between, on the one hand, what Kierkegaard
explicates as Christian ideals, concepts, and values, and,
for example, on the other hand, deconstructive, postmodern,
feminist, and LGBTQ approaches to the problems of the
present age;
·
the
relationship between the religious and the secular, between
the divine and the human, between faith and reason;
·
the
relationship between ethics and divine command;
·
the
relationship between art and the indirect communications of
the religious imagination;
·
the
relationship between truth as subjectivity and truth as
alterity.
Timetable:
·
Proposals of
one single-spaced page in length should be submitted either to
Mark Cauchi (mcauchi@yorku.ca)
or to Avron Kulak (akulak@yorku.ca)
by January 1, 2012.
·
Authors will be
informed about the status of their proposals by March 1, 2012.
·
Final drafts of
essays – 6000 words in length, not including footnotes – will be
due on September 1, 2012.
·
Suggestions for
revisions will be made, where necessary, by November 30, 2012.
·
Final revised
essays will be expected within two months of authors having
received suggestions for revisions.
Call for
papers at American Philosophical Association (APA)
SKS Group Meeting at Eastern APA 2011
December 27-30, Washington, DC - Marriott Wardman Park
Session Theme: Kierkegaard and the Cognitive Sciences
Reading time: 20-25 minutes maximum
Deadline for submission: April 30, 2011
SKS Group Meeting at Central APA 2012
February 15-18, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL
Session Theme: Open
Reading time: 20-25 minutes maximum
Deadline for submission: May 31, 2011
SKS Group Meeting at Eastern APA 2012
December 27-30, Atlanta, GA - Marriott Atlanta Marquis
Session Theme: Kierkegaard on the Love of Self and Others
Reading time: 20-25 minutes maximum
Deadline for submission: April 30, 2012
SKS Group Meeting at Pacific APA 2013
April: Date and location TBD
Session Topic: Open, Celebrating Søren at 200!
Reading time: 20-25 minutes maximum
Deadline for submission: May 31, 2012
All submissions should be sent to Michael Strawser at
strawser@mail.ucf.edu.
Call for
papers
A journal that has long been friendly to Kierkegaard studies,
The Modern Schoolman, is changing its name to Res
Philosophica. To kick off the event, the journal is putting
out a number of special issues. One of them will be on
Kierkegaard and rationality. Coinciding with the special issue
will be an essay competition.
The winner will receive
$3,000 and the winner's article will be published in the issue.
See the official website:
www.resphilosophica.org/prize/2013
For further information contact Antony Aumann at
aaumann@nmu.edu.
