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.
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 to 8000 words in length, including notes – 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.
For more information and a longer CFP, contact Avron Kulak or Mark Cauchi.