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Publications
Books
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Kierkegaard's
Mirrors Interest,
Self, and Moral Vision (Hampshire:
Palgrave MacMillan, 2010)
Available
from Palgrave and Amazon What is it to see the world, other people, and imagined situations not
just as morally compelling, but as making personal demands of us? What
is it to experience stories as speaking to us individually and directly?
Kierkegaard's Mirrors explores Kierkegaard's unique and challenging answers to these questions.
Beginning with the structural account of consciousness offered in Johannes Climacus,
this book develops a new phenomenological interpretation of what
Kierkegaard calls 'interest': a self-reflexive mode of thought, vision
and imagination that plays a central role in moral experience. Tracing
this concept across Kierkegaard's work takes us through topics such as
consciousness, the ontology of selfhood, ethical imagination, admiration
and imitation, seeing the other, metaphors of self-recognition and
mirroring, our need for transcendent meaning, and the relationship
between scholarship and subjective knowledge. 'Interest' equips us with a
new understanding of Kierkegaard's highly original normative,
teleological account of moral vision.
“...Stokes’s book is, without
doubt, one of the, if not the, best account of Kierkegaard as a
philosopher and moral psychologist ever written. Kierkegaard’s Mirrors is
essential reading for anyone interested in Kierkegaard” – Jamie Turnbull, British
Journal for the History of Philosophy 19:1
(January 2011) pp.161-4 "In a
wonderful exhibit of archival retrieval,
Patrick Stokes has written a fine account of an underappreciated theme,
interesse
[...] He’s found a powerful new
prism through
which to cast the beams of the enigmatic texts that concern us." -
Edward F. Mooney, Søren
Kierkegaard Newsletter 56 (November 2010) "Stokes’s
turn to phenomenology to clarify Kierkegaard’s contribution to moral
philosophy is original, constructive, rigorous and overall, I think,
successful in its aims.[...] I hope that Stokes, and others, will
continue to allow the insights of phenomenological analysis and
Kierkegaard scholarship to advance contemporary moral philosophy." -
Eleanor Helms,International
Philosophical Quarterly 50:3 (October
2010) pp.395-7
"...interesting and original" - Ionuţ Bârliba, “Interest as a Mirror to
Our Own Self” Meta: Research in Hermeneutics,
Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy 2:2
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Kierkegaard
and Death Edited
by Patrick Stokes and Adam Buben (Bloomington,
IN: Indiana University Press, 2011) Available from IUP and Amazon Few philosophers have devoted such sustained, almost obsessive attention to the topic of death as Søren Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard and Death
brings together new work on Kierkegaard's multifaceted discussions of
death and provides a thorough guide to the development, in various texts
and contexts, of Kierkegaard’s ideas concerning death. Essays by an
international group of scholars take up essential topics such as dying
to the world, living death, immortality, suicide, mortality and
subjectivity, death and the meaning of life, remembrance of the dead,
and the question of the afterlife. While bringing Kierkegaard's
philosophy of death into focus, this volume connects Kierkegaard with
important debates in contemporary philosophy. |
Journal
Articles
"Is
Narrative Identity Four-Dimensionalist?" European Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming, online early) (abstract) "Ghosts in the Machine: Do the Dead Live On in Facebook?" Philosophy and Technology, special issue on 'Personal Identity After the Information Revolution' (forthcoming, online early) (abstract) "Uniting the Perspectival
Subject: Two Approaches" Phenomenology
and the Cognitive Sciences 10:1 (February 2011)
pp.23-44 (abstract) "Fearful
Asymmetry: Kierkegaard's Search for the Direction of Time" Continental Philosophy Review 43:4
(December 2010) pp.485-507 (abstract) "Naked Subjectivity: Minimal vs. Narrative
Selfhood in Kierkegaard" Inquiry 53:4
(August 2010) pp.356–382 (abstract) "'See For Your Self': Contemporaneity, Autopsy
and Presence in Kierkegaard's Moral-Religious Psychology"
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
18:2 (April 2010) pp.297-319 (abstract) "What's Missing in Episodic
Selfhood? A Kierkegaardian Response to Galen Strawson" Journal
of Consciousness Studies 17:1-2 (February 2010)
pp.119-143 (abstract) "Locke, Kierkegaard and the
Phenomenology of Personal Identity" International
Journal of Philosophical Studies 16:5 (December 2008)
pp.645-672 (abstract) “'Interest' in Kierkegaard’s Structure of
Consciousness" International
Philosophical Quarterly 48:4, 192 (December 2008)
pp.437-458 (abstract) "Kierkegaardian Vision and the
Concrete Other" Continental
Philosophy Review 39:4 (December 2006) pp.393-413 (abstract) "Kierkegaard's
Mirrors: The Immediacy of Moral Vision" Inquiry
50:1 (February 2007) pp.70-94 (abstract)
Book
Chapters
"Death"
in George Pattison and John Lippitt (eds) The Oxford Handbook of
Kierkegaard (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012) "Consciousness"
in Steven Emmanuel, William McDonald and Jon Stewart (eds) Kierkegaard Research: Sources,
Reception and Resources Vol. 15 Kierkegaard's Concepts, Tome I:
Philosophy (Aldshot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2012) "Duties
to the Dead? Earnest Imagination and Remembrance" in Patrick Stokes
and Adam Buben (eds) Kierkegaard and Death (Bloomington,
IN: Indiana University Press, 2011) (abstract) "The Science of the Dead:
Proto-Spiritualism in Kierkegaard's Copenhagen"
in Roman Kralik, Peter Sajda and Jamie Turnbull (eds) Kierkegaard
and the Religious Crisis of the Nineteenth Century (Acta
Kierkegaardiana IV) (Sala and Toronto:
Kierkegaard Society in Slovakia and Kierkegaard Circle, 2010) (abstract) "Anti-Climacus
and Neo-Lockeanism: Towards a Kierkegaardian Theory
of Personal Identity" in Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Herman Deuser and K.
Brian Soderquist (eds) Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook 2009
(Berlin: de Gruyter, 2009) pp.527-555 (abstract) "Kierkegaard's Uncanny
Encounter with Schopenhauer, 1854" in Roman
Kralik et al (eds) Kierkegaard and Great
Philosophers (Acta Kierkegaardiana
Vol. II) (Mexico: Sociedad Iberoamericana de Estudios Kierkegaardianos,
2007) (abstract) -
Republished as “Zvláštne
stretnutie Kierkegaarda a Schopenhauera v roku 1854” in
Roman Králik, Abrahim H. Khan, Tibor Máhrik and Miroslav Sapík (eds) Kierkegaardovo Zrkadlo Pre Súčasnosť [Kierkegaard’s Mirror
for the Present Age] (Acta
Kierkegaardiana Supplement 1) (Sala and Toronto: Kierkegaard
Society in Slovakia and Kierkegaard Circle, 2010) "The
Power of Death: Retroactivity, Narrative, and Interest" in Robert L.
Perkins (ed.) International Kierkegaard Commentary:
Prefaces/Writing Sampler and Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions
(Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2006) pp.387-417 (abstract)
Reviews
Galen Strawson Selves:
An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics, International Journal of
Philosophical Studies 19:4 (November 2011): 619-624 David
Kangas, Kierkegaard's Instant: On Beginnings and
K. Brian Soderquist, The Isolated Self: Truth and Untruth in
Søren Kierkegaard's On The Concept of Irony,
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
65:3 (June 2009) pp.177-182 Edward
F. Mooney, On Søren Kierkegaard: Reflections on Dialogue,
Polemics, Lost Intimacy, and Time, Søren Kierkegaard
Newsletter (December 2007)
Popular
Writing
"Just
as I was Getting to Know Me" in Paula Smithka and Court Lewis Doctor
Who and Philosophy (Chicago and La Salle, IL:
Open Court,
2010) pp.3-13 (abstract) "An Australian Kierkegaardian in Copenhagen,"
eTeol 7 (February 2010)
Media
Appearances
Quoted
in Ian Samson, "Great Dynasties of the World: The Doctor"
The Guardian
12th February 2011 Interviewed
in Wim
Verseput, "Titanenklus in Kopenhagen"
Reformatorisch Dagblad 14th May 2009 (in Dutch)
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