David Kangas
Lecturer (Ph.D., Yale University, 1999)
David Kangas' interests are in continental philosophy, history of philosophy, and philosophy of religion. I have particular interests in the 19th century (Hegel, Romanticism, Kierkegaard, Marx), Neoplatonism (Plotinus, Eckhart), and contemporary continental thought (Heidegger, Levinas and Reiner Schürmann). My first book Kierkegaard's Instant considers the problem of temporality and beginning in Kierkegaard's early works.
My current book project is titled "Joy in Philosophy." I argue that joy has been occluded from much of western thought, either by being submerged in eudaimonia or beatitude, or through a fixation upon the dynamics of negation and mortality. The occlusion of joy is largely related to the failure to attend to the radical dimensions of what Arendt called "natality." Thinking through figures like Spinoza, Levinas, Marguerite Porete and Reiner Schürmann, I develop an account of joy that is linked to the figure of life "without a why" (from Porete).
Additionally I serve on the editorial board and is translator for the forthcoming Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks (11 vols.). Curriculum Vitae
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