Books by Roe Fremstedal
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022
The present work reexamines the importance of the Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkeg... more The present work reexamines the importance of the Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55). It argues that many of Kierkegaard’s most controversial and influential ideas are more relevant than ever. Specifically, it shows how we can make goodsense of ideas such as subjective truth,“the leap” into faith and “the teleological suspensionof the ethical”. When properly understood, neither of these ideas are as problematic ascommentators have long assumed.
It is argued that Kierkegaard offers a novel account of wholeheartedness that isrelevant to discussions of personal identity, truth, ethics, and religion (particularly after Frankfurt, MacIntyre, and Williams). Concluding Unscientific Postscript, notably, describeswholeheartedness as subjective truth, and despair as subjective untruth. This account involvesan original, adverbial theory of truth in which agents, rather than propositions, are the basictruth-bearers (as suggested by Daniel Watts). For Kierkegaard, wholeheartedness requiresliving truly by having a coherent personal identity (something Kierkegaard also describes as “purity of heart”). Despair and doublemindedness, by contrast, involve an incoherent identity,which fails to be true to itself.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Kierkegaard and Kant on Radical Evil and the Highest Good is a major study of Kierkegaard's relat... more Kierkegaard and Kant on Radical Evil and the Highest Good is a major study of Kierkegaard's relation to Kant that gives a comprehensive account of radical evil and the highest good, two controversial doctrines with important consequences for ethics and religion. Fremstedal offers an original account of Kierkegaard and his role in the history of philosophy that reconstructs several of his central ideas by relating them to Kant and partially also to contemporary debates. By offering a comparative presentation, the book shows how Kant and Kierkegaard offer different solutions to the problem of evil and its complex relation to religious faith and happiness. Fremstedal sheds new light on Kierkegaard's argument against secular thinking, and shows that there are more Kantian elements in Kierkegaard than has been acknowledged. Kierkegaard's use of Kantian ideas is instructive, since it points to problems with Kant's philosophy of religion and indicates how Kantian philosophy can be used to defend religious faith and hope.
Guest co-editor of special double-issue on Examen Philosophicum [The oldest and biggest philosoph... more Guest co-editor of special double-issue on Examen Philosophicum [The oldest and biggest philosophy course in Norway and Scandinavia], with Vibeke Tellmann and Heine Holmen, Norsk filosofisk tidsskrift [Norwegian Journal of Philosophy], 2022
Ph.D. dissertation, NTNU 2010
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Avhandlingen omhandler Kierkegaards analyse av etikk, subjektivitet og intersubjektivitet. Bakgru... more Avhandlingen omhandler Kierkegaards analyse av etikk, subjektivitet og intersubjektivitet. Bakgrunnen for dette er at det siden Kierkegaard-litteraturens begynnelse har vært vanlig å anklage Kierkegaard for ekstrem individualisme og det som - med Kierkegaard-litteraturens særegne sjargong - kalles akosmisme. Sistnevnte er en ekstrem posisjon som innebærer verdensnektelse eller verdensløshet (og som dermed ligner det fagfilosofer idag kaller ontologisk solipsisme).
I motsetningen til kommentatorer som Brandes, Høffding, Adorno, Buber og Løgstrup som hevder at Kierkegaard løsriver individet fra fellesskapet, forsøker avhandlingen å vise at Kierkegaard ikke står for ekstrem invidualisme, akosmisme eller solipsisme. Gjennom en nylesning av sentrale Kierkegaard-verker, forsøker avhandlingen å vise at vi finner en utførlig analyse av det intersubjektive hos Kierkegaard samt at denne analysen til dels ligner analysene vi finner hos Hegel, Heidegger, Wittgensteins og Habermas.
Papers (in English) by Roe Fremstedal
in Jon Stewart (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Existentialism, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism), 2020
Kant’s critical philosophy represents a rudimentary existentialism, or a proto-existentialism, in... more Kant’s critical philosophy represents a rudimentary existentialism, or a proto-existentialism, in the following respects: He emphasizes human finitude, limits our knowledge, and argues that human consciousness is characterized by mineness (Jemeinigkeit). He introduces the influential concept of autonomy, something that lead to controversies about constructivism and anti-realism in meta-ethics and anticipated problems concerning decisionism in Existentialism. Kant makes human freedom the central philosophical issue, arguing (in the incorporation thesis) that freedom is inescapable for human agents. He even holds that awareness of freedom leads to anxiety (as opposed to fear), and that anxiety precedes the fall into evil. In the doctrine of radical evil, he argues that human agents are always already suffering from self-deception because of this fall. In order to overcome self-deception and evil, Kant proscribes a radical self-choice in which the agent takes over himself and society by thinking independently and consistently. However, this is not only a moral issue for Kant but also something that concerns religious faith and hope, since Kant argues that we need religion to overcome not only moral evil but also despair. Although he criticizes traditional natural theology, Kant develops a practical (moral) interpretation of religion that anticipates religious Existentialism. In this context, he developed an influential critique of philosophical theodicies and a notion of the hiddenness of God that emphasizes the importance and inscrutability of evil. By doing this, and by introducing philosophy of religion and philosophical anthropology as new disciplines, Kant prepared the ground for Existentialism.
By comparing the theories of evil found in Kant and Kierkegaard, this article aims to shed new li... more By comparing the theories of evil found in Kant and Kierkegaard, this article aims to shed new light on Kierkegaard, as well as on the historical and conceptual relations between the two philosophers. The author shows that there is considerable overlap between Kant's doctrine of radical evil and Kierkegaard's views on guilt and sin and argues that Kierkegaard approved of the doctrine of radical evil. Although Kierkegaard's distinction between guilt and sin breaks radically with Kant, there are more Kantian elements in Kierkegaard than was shown by earlier scholarship. Finally, Kierkegaard provides an alternative solution to the problem of the universality of guilt, a problem much discussed in the literature on Kant.
This article tries to make sense of the concept of the highest good (eternal bliss) in Søren Kier... more This article tries to make sense of the concept of the highest good (eternal bliss) in Søren Kierkegaard by comparing it to the analysis of the highest good found in Immanuel Kant. The comparison with Kant’s more systematic analysis helps us clarify the meaning and importance of the concept in Kierkegaard as well as to shed new light on the conceptual relation between Kant and Kierkegaard. The article argues that the concept of the highest good is of systematic importance in Kierkegaard, although previous research has tended to overlook this, no doubt due to Kierkegaard’s cryptic use of the concept. It is argued that Kierkegaard’s concept of the highest good is much closer to Kant’s than what previous research has indicated. In particular, Kant and Kierkegaard see the highest good not only as comprising of virtue and happiness (bliss), but also as being the Kingdom of God.
Kierkegaard’s The Sickness unto Death: A Critical Guide (Cambridge Critical Guides), 2022
Inquiry: An interdisciplinary journal of philosophy
The aim of this paper is to clarify Kierkegaard’s concept of demonic despair (and
demonic evil) ... more The aim of this paper is to clarify Kierkegaard’s concept of demonic despair (and
demonic evil) and to show its relevance for discussions of the guise of the good
thesis (i.e. that in f-ing intentionally, we take f-ing to be good). Contemporary
discussions of diabolic evil often emphasise the phenomena of despair and
acedia as apparent counter-examples to the guise of the good. I contend that
Kierkegaard’s analysis of despair is relevant to these discussions, because it
reconciles demonic (extreme) despair and acedia with the guise of the good.
In The Sickness unto Death, Kierkegaard provides an influential, systematic
account of despair that relates evil, despair, and acedia to each other.
Michelle Kosch argues that this account goes beyond Kierkegaard’s German
predecessors by introducing a concept of diabolic evil and despair. By
contrast, the present paper argues that Kierkegaard takes diabolic evil to be
impossible, although he offers a rich analysis of the demonic that resembles
diabolic agency. Still, Kierkegaard’s analysis rests on ontological assumptions
about the nature of the good that belong to a Platonico-Christian tradition
that is controversial today.
in Gerhard Schreiber (ed.) Interesse am Anderen. Interdisiziplinäre Beiträge zum Verhältnis von Religion und Rationalität. Für Heiko Schulz zum 60. Geburtstag” Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter (Theologische Bibliothek Töpelmann, vol. 187), 2019
The aim of this paper is to explore a pragmatic approach to hope and the ethics of belief that al... more The aim of this paper is to explore a pragmatic approach to hope and the ethics of belief that allows rational hope against hope. Hope against hope is hope that goes beyond what the evidence supports by hoping for something that is both highly unlikely and highly valuable. However, this could take different forms. One could either hope against the evidence or merely go beyond it; the evidence could be inconclusive or conclusive, conflicting or clear, misleading or plain, absent or neutral. Hope against hope then covers everything from hoping for something that appears unlikely to hoping for something that appears impossible, judging by the available evidence. However, there is a very long tradition of criticizing hope for being false or irrational. But hope can only be false or irrational if it is subject to rational assessment. This presupposes that it is appropriate to ask for a reason or a justification for hoping, since one can be answerable or responsible for hoping. Moreover, this typically assumes that hopes can be changed in response to reasons. False hopes, notably, should be given up (if possible). However, if hope is subject to rational assessment, it is also possible for hope to be rational or justified. Indeed, I will explore how practical reasons or pragmatic considerations may justify hope against hope, sketching criteria for rational hope that allow hope against hope. Section I introduces evidentialism and pragmatism regarding belief. Sections II and III discuss whether or not rational hope against hope is compatible with evidentialism, favoring a pragmatist approach to hope and belief. Section IV discusses evidentialism and pragmatism, whereas sections V-VII sketch constraints on pragmatism and rational hope.
The Journal of Value Inquiry, 2018
In this paper, I discuss and reject both the idea of a moral order, in which morality and prudenc... more In this paper, I discuss and reject both the idea of a moral order, in which morality and prudence generally coincide, and the idea of a tragic world, in which morality and prudence generally collide. I then discuss and defend an intermediary position in which morality and prudence converge substantially. It is argued that moral agency presuppose friction that prevents morality from coinciding perfectly with prudence. Still, morality and prudence should not be thought of as being fundamentally incompatible, because this would lead to an objectionable dualism of practical reason as well as demoralization.
Kierkegaard differs from his contemporaries Schopenhauer and Nietzsche by emphasizing the value o... more Kierkegaard differs from his contemporaries Schopenhauer and Nietzsche by emphasizing the value of hope and its importance for human agency and selfhood (practical identity). In The Sickness unto Death, Kierkegaard argues that despair involves a loss of hope and courage that is extremely common. Moreover, despair involves being double-minded by having an incoherent practical identity (although it need not be recognized as such if the agent mistakes his identity). A coherent practical identity, by contrast, requires wholehearted commitment towards ideals and the hope that our ideals are realizable.
Kierkegaard develops an existential account of hope that emphasizes the interrelation between hope and despair (hopelessness), seeing both as crucial for human agency and selfhood. More specifically, Kierkegaard defends the strong view that we should always hope for the good, no matter how bad the situation might be. Put differently, Kierkegaard sees hope against hope as necessary for human agency and selfhood. His emphasis lies not so much on a description of what hope is as an analysis of what justified hope is. More specifically, Kierkegaard argues that justified hope is interrelated with charity and religious faith, and has the highest good (eternal bliss) as its proper object. As such, it belongs not only to a Judeo-Christian tradition that focuses on the Pauline triad of faith, hope, and charity but it also belongs to a philosophical tradition from Augustine and Kant that views the highest good (the summum bonum), a synthesis of virtue and happiness, as the ultimate object of hope. However, Kierkegaard goes beyond his forerunner by developing a via negativa approach to hope that starts with hopelessness and despair before it proceeds to hope. Indeed, Kierkegaard argues that proper hope, hope against hope, both presupposes and overcomes despair at every instant.
This article investigates the convergence between Kierkegaard’s concept of despair and Nietzsche’... more This article investigates the convergence between Kierkegaard’s concept of despair and Nietzsche’s concept of nihilism. The piece argues that (1) both Kierkegaard and Nietzsche rely on an internal critique of ways of life which collapse on their own terms; (2) both despair and nihilism involve a radical, existential aporia and double-mindedness which can be (3) either conscious or non-conscious; (4) there is some overlap between the main types of nihilism and the different types of inauthentic (non-conscious) despair; (5) finally, a comparison with Nietzsche makes it possible to make sense of inauthentic despair without resorting to theological presuppositions or a twentieth century depth psychology notion of the unconscious.
Beatrix Himmelmann and Robert L. Louden (eds.), Why Be Moral?, Berlin: de Gruyter 2015,, 2015
The present text focuses on what resources Kierkegaard offers for dealing with the question “Why ... more The present text focuses on what resources Kierkegaard offers for dealing with the question “Why be moral?” I sketch an approach to this question by presenting Kierkegaard’s methodology, his negative arguments against the aesthete and the motive he offers for being moral. I conclude that Kierkegaard does provide motivation for assessing ourselves in moral terms, although his approach is more relevant to deontological ethics and virtue ethics than consequentialism.
The present text deals with the question of the meaning of life in the existentialist theory of t... more The present text deals with the question of the meaning of life in the existentialist theory of the Norwegian philosopher Peter Wessel Zapffe . In his book On the Tragic (1941), Zapffe sketched a theory of the human condition where the meaning of life plays a decisive role together with the human need for justice. This paper aims to reconstruct the central elements of Zapffe's analysis and to discuss them critically by focusing on his claim that human beings need a fundamental meaning of life as a whole that transcends meaning in life. I pay particular attention to Zapffe's claim that life is meaningless, since the meaning of life is fundamentally lacking. I conclude that Zapffe's analysis is problematic for reasons both internal and external to his theory.
Perfektionismus der Autonomie, ed. by Douglas Moggach, Nadine Mooren, and Michael Quante (C.H. Beck, Munich), 2020
This chapter focuses on how Kierkegaard criticizes both eudaimonism and Kantian autonomy for fail... more This chapter focuses on how Kierkegaard criticizes both eudaimonism and Kantian autonomy for failing to account for unconditional obligations and genuine other-regard. Like Kant, Kierkegaard argues that eudaimonism makes moral virtue contingent on prudence. Kierkegaard views eudaimonism as an anthropocentric and self-regarding doctrine, which he contrasts not with Kantian autonomy but with theocentrism and proper other-regard. Kierkegaard then criticizes Kantian autonomy in much the same way as he criticizes eudaimonism. Whereas eudaimonism makes morality contingent on prudence, autonomy makes morality contingent on decisions that may be revoked, he argues. As a result, human autonomy can account for hypothetical imperatives but not categorical imperatives. This line of reasoning seems problematic, however, since Kierkegaard takes Kantian autonomy to not only represent a form of moral constructivism, but also a form of moral relativism and decisionism. Still, Kierkegaard’s critique of autonomy indicates that morality and practical rationality need unconditional commitment towards what is objectively good.
The present article deals with Kierkegaard’s contributions to ethics by focusing on his relation ... more The present article deals with Kierkegaard’s contributions to ethics by focusing on his relation to virtue ethics and deontology, his views of moral agency and the source of moral obligations. It is argued that Kierkegaard presents a critique of Kantian autonomy that favors moral realism and theological voluntarism and that he gives an account of human agency and selfhood in which morality is inescapable.
Jon Stewart (ed.), A Companion to Kierkegaard. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 2015 (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy, vol. 58), 2015
The present article deals with German philosophy from Leibniz to Fichte that formed an important ... more The present article deals with German philosophy from Leibniz to Fichte that formed an important part of Kierkegaard’s intellectual background. In this period German philosophy came to dominate Danish philosophy. However, Kierkegaard’s attitude towards his German predecessors is generally ambivalent, involving both critique and admiration. Although Kierkegaard was fluent in German and well familiar with classic German philosophy, his use of this philosophy is somewhat eclectic and assimilated to his own ends. Kierkegaard uses his German predecessors to develop a distinction between the spheres of existence and thought and to reinforce what he took to be genuine Christian faith.
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It is argued that Kierkegaard offers a novel account of wholeheartedness that isrelevant to discussions of personal identity, truth, ethics, and religion (particularly after Frankfurt, MacIntyre, and Williams). Concluding Unscientific Postscript, notably, describeswholeheartedness as subjective truth, and despair as subjective untruth. This account involvesan original, adverbial theory of truth in which agents, rather than propositions, are the basictruth-bearers (as suggested by Daniel Watts). For Kierkegaard, wholeheartedness requiresliving truly by having a coherent personal identity (something Kierkegaard also describes as “purity of heart”). Despair and doublemindedness, by contrast, involve an incoherent identity,which fails to be true to itself.
I motsetningen til kommentatorer som Brandes, Høffding, Adorno, Buber og Løgstrup som hevder at Kierkegaard løsriver individet fra fellesskapet, forsøker avhandlingen å vise at Kierkegaard ikke står for ekstrem invidualisme, akosmisme eller solipsisme. Gjennom en nylesning av sentrale Kierkegaard-verker, forsøker avhandlingen å vise at vi finner en utførlig analyse av det intersubjektive hos Kierkegaard samt at denne analysen til dels ligner analysene vi finner hos Hegel, Heidegger, Wittgensteins og Habermas.
Papers (in English) by Roe Fremstedal
demonic evil) and to show its relevance for discussions of the guise of the good
thesis (i.e. that in f-ing intentionally, we take f-ing to be good). Contemporary
discussions of diabolic evil often emphasise the phenomena of despair and
acedia as apparent counter-examples to the guise of the good. I contend that
Kierkegaard’s analysis of despair is relevant to these discussions, because it
reconciles demonic (extreme) despair and acedia with the guise of the good.
In The Sickness unto Death, Kierkegaard provides an influential, systematic
account of despair that relates evil, despair, and acedia to each other.
Michelle Kosch argues that this account goes beyond Kierkegaard’s German
predecessors by introducing a concept of diabolic evil and despair. By
contrast, the present paper argues that Kierkegaard takes diabolic evil to be
impossible, although he offers a rich analysis of the demonic that resembles
diabolic agency. Still, Kierkegaard’s analysis rests on ontological assumptions
about the nature of the good that belong to a Platonico-Christian tradition
that is controversial today.
Kierkegaard develops an existential account of hope that emphasizes the interrelation between hope and despair (hopelessness), seeing both as crucial for human agency and selfhood. More specifically, Kierkegaard defends the strong view that we should always hope for the good, no matter how bad the situation might be. Put differently, Kierkegaard sees hope against hope as necessary for human agency and selfhood. His emphasis lies not so much on a description of what hope is as an analysis of what justified hope is. More specifically, Kierkegaard argues that justified hope is interrelated with charity and religious faith, and has the highest good (eternal bliss) as its proper object. As such, it belongs not only to a Judeo-Christian tradition that focuses on the Pauline triad of faith, hope, and charity but it also belongs to a philosophical tradition from Augustine and Kant that views the highest good (the summum bonum), a synthesis of virtue and happiness, as the ultimate object of hope. However, Kierkegaard goes beyond his forerunner by developing a via negativa approach to hope that starts with hopelessness and despair before it proceeds to hope. Indeed, Kierkegaard argues that proper hope, hope against hope, both presupposes and overcomes despair at every instant.
It is argued that Kierkegaard offers a novel account of wholeheartedness that isrelevant to discussions of personal identity, truth, ethics, and religion (particularly after Frankfurt, MacIntyre, and Williams). Concluding Unscientific Postscript, notably, describeswholeheartedness as subjective truth, and despair as subjective untruth. This account involvesan original, adverbial theory of truth in which agents, rather than propositions, are the basictruth-bearers (as suggested by Daniel Watts). For Kierkegaard, wholeheartedness requiresliving truly by having a coherent personal identity (something Kierkegaard also describes as “purity of heart”). Despair and doublemindedness, by contrast, involve an incoherent identity,which fails to be true to itself.
I motsetningen til kommentatorer som Brandes, Høffding, Adorno, Buber og Løgstrup som hevder at Kierkegaard løsriver individet fra fellesskapet, forsøker avhandlingen å vise at Kierkegaard ikke står for ekstrem invidualisme, akosmisme eller solipsisme. Gjennom en nylesning av sentrale Kierkegaard-verker, forsøker avhandlingen å vise at vi finner en utførlig analyse av det intersubjektive hos Kierkegaard samt at denne analysen til dels ligner analysene vi finner hos Hegel, Heidegger, Wittgensteins og Habermas.
demonic evil) and to show its relevance for discussions of the guise of the good
thesis (i.e. that in f-ing intentionally, we take f-ing to be good). Contemporary
discussions of diabolic evil often emphasise the phenomena of despair and
acedia as apparent counter-examples to the guise of the good. I contend that
Kierkegaard’s analysis of despair is relevant to these discussions, because it
reconciles demonic (extreme) despair and acedia with the guise of the good.
In The Sickness unto Death, Kierkegaard provides an influential, systematic
account of despair that relates evil, despair, and acedia to each other.
Michelle Kosch argues that this account goes beyond Kierkegaard’s German
predecessors by introducing a concept of diabolic evil and despair. By
contrast, the present paper argues that Kierkegaard takes diabolic evil to be
impossible, although he offers a rich analysis of the demonic that resembles
diabolic agency. Still, Kierkegaard’s analysis rests on ontological assumptions
about the nature of the good that belong to a Platonico-Christian tradition
that is controversial today.
Kierkegaard develops an existential account of hope that emphasizes the interrelation between hope and despair (hopelessness), seeing both as crucial for human agency and selfhood. More specifically, Kierkegaard defends the strong view that we should always hope for the good, no matter how bad the situation might be. Put differently, Kierkegaard sees hope against hope as necessary for human agency and selfhood. His emphasis lies not so much on a description of what hope is as an analysis of what justified hope is. More specifically, Kierkegaard argues that justified hope is interrelated with charity and religious faith, and has the highest good (eternal bliss) as its proper object. As such, it belongs not only to a Judeo-Christian tradition that focuses on the Pauline triad of faith, hope, and charity but it also belongs to a philosophical tradition from Augustine and Kant that views the highest good (the summum bonum), a synthesis of virtue and happiness, as the ultimate object of hope. However, Kierkegaard goes beyond his forerunner by developing a via negativa approach to hope that starts with hopelessness and despair before it proceeds to hope. Indeed, Kierkegaard argues that proper hope, hope against hope, both presupposes and overcomes despair at every instant.
Ruth Chang writes, “If being moral involves making one’s life go worse, why should one be moral? And if conflicts between moral and prudential values [or reasons] are genuine, how in such cases can practical reason guide decision about what to do?” (2004: 118). There are several difficult questions that arise with such conflicts: First, is practical reason is divided against itself, and therefore unable to guide action, all-things-considered? Second, is it rationally required, all-things-considered, to be moral? Immoralism denies the latter. But the problem follows from the former issue, known as Sidgwick’s dualism of practical reason, in which competing moral and prudential reasons fail to make anything rationally required, all-things-considered.
The same problem arises with normative pluralism (although the literature rarely mentions it): For we seem unable to resolve normative conflict if we lack a standard that allows rational comparison and ranking of competing reasons, all-things-considered. However, the problem here is not just immoralism that denies moral requirements. For normative pluralism also undermines moral anti-rationalism that sees moral requirements as being defeatable, all-things-considered. Like moral rationalism, anti-rationalism requires an overall judgment, all-things-considered, which is exactly what normative pluralism (and the dualism of practical reason) undermines.
in a theistic setting. Attempts to answer this question are an ever greater challenge in a globalizing world where theism itself is challenged by fundamentally different ways of relating to reality. At the same time, the
question of the foundations of morality represent a major challenge with regards to current societal debate in a world that is
facing a “crisis of meaning” (Mattéi) thus favoring a “return of religion” to provide orientation (Bolz/Girsberger). Given the contemporary interplay of actors with fundamentally different backgrounds, it is relevant and timely to reconsider this complex and multifaceted issue. For the
conference God and Morality, we solicit proposals that critically reflect and reconsider, both historically and systematically, current positions in the light of a globalized environment where the Christian-Platonic tradition cannot be held to be the major frame of reference.
The goal of the Yearbook is to advance Kierkegaard studies by encouraging top-level scholarship in the field. 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 the Yearbook publishes articles from all related fields (philosophy, theology, literary studies etc.) in English, French and German. Submissions should be sent to the editorial secretary, Peter Šajda at: ksyb@degruyter.com.
The deadline for submissions for the 2021 issue of the Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook is November 15th, 2020.
Webpage: https://www.esc-clermont.fr/colloque-kierkegaard-ethics/
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