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My copy just arrived! The first edited volume on a Kierkegaard as phenomenologist inspired my dissertation. In this second volume I got to contribute what is basically a summary of that dissertation. What an incredible honor!

Patience as a hermeneutical virtue. This is a paper I had been wanting to write for a while! Many thanks to Steve Evans and John Lippitt for including me in their special issue. mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/3…

When a boomer and a millennial decide to get together for coffee and the boomer suggests “Starbucks, Panera, or Duncan Donuts”

I am teaching a class called Philosophy and Literature in the fall. What are your favorite literary works that are especially philosophically intriguing?

Best late night snack: an all beef hotdog with a side of kimchi.

Having lived in Minnesota and Canada, I am rather familiar with “false springs.” But Indiana is the weirdest of them all. One hour it is sunny and mild, the next there is a blizzard. Then more sun, and then another blizzard.

“Friendship cannot be separated from reality any more than the beautiful. It is a miracle, like the beautiful. And the miracle consists simply in the fact that it exists.” - Simone Weil

“That sacrifice, a journey up the Mount Moriah of Isaac and Abraham that Rothko frequents in his mental gymnastics with Kierkegaard, is a sacrifice toward a possibility of redemption.“

Someone needs to make a heart wringing movie that foregrounds Edith Stein’s relationship with Husserl over the years.

A step into a new life in view of an even greater promise of new life. This was an especially joyful Easter!

“Beauty insists that I inwardly open myself to it and let my inner self be determined by it.” Edith Stein

Over the last two weeks I have said many sad goodbyes in both South Bend, IN and Hamilton, ON and am really looking forward to some very happy hellos in Philadelphia.

So it begins!

New faculty orientation reading. I love it here.

This semester I get to design and teach a class called Philosophy and Literature and I CANNOT WAIT.