{"id":11526,"date":"2024-09-18T09:24:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T14:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/provost\/?page_id=11526"},"modified":"2024-09-18T09:34:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T14:34:50","slug":"kierkegaard-chair-in-christian-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/provost\/kierkegaard-chair-in-christian-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kierkegaard Chair in Christian Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection>\n<p>Established through a give from an anonymous donor in 2021, the Kierkegaard Chair in Christian Philosophy was created to advance scholarship and publication concerning the writings of S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard and Christian Philosophy. Kierkegaard was a 19th-century Danish philosopher who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher. The endowed chair, in St. Olaf\u2019s Department of Philosophy, enables the college to add courses aligned with its new general education curriculum as well as new courses exploring Kierkegaard\u2019s work. The position also includes dedicated time for research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Current Chair: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>K. Brian S\u00f6derquist joined the St. Olaf faculty in 2022. Brian\u2019s areas of specialization are Philosophy of Religion, Existentialism, and the thought of S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard. Brian has a Ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen, a master\u2019s degree from Yale University, and a bachelor\u2019s degree from Utah State University. He is the author of&nbsp;<em>The Isolated Self: Truth and Untruth in Kierkegaard\u2019s On the Concept of Irony<\/em>&nbsp;as well as numerous articles and book chapters. He was part of the team that translated&nbsp;<em>Kierkegaard\u2019s Journals and Notebooks<\/em>&nbsp;(11 volumes) and has served as co-editor of&nbsp;<em>Kierkegaard Studies: Yearbook<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Kierkegaardiana<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brian enjoys metalsmithing, biking through the Danish countryside, and hiking in the deserts of Southern Utah.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Established through a give from an anonymous donor in 2021, the Kierkegaard Chair in Christian Philosophy was created to advance scholarship and publication concerning the writings of S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3422,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11526","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3422"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11526"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11534,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11526\/revisions\/11534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}