Kierkegaard on Love

SATURDAY MAY 3RD 2014

at 4,THE SQUARE (THEOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES)

UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW G12 8QQ

11.00 Welcome

11.30 ‘THE WORK OF LOVE IN PRAISING LOVE’

(Kierkegaard’s Writings vol. 16, pp. 359ff.) led by George Pattison (University of Glasgow)

12.45 Lunch break

13.45 John Lippitt (University of Hertfordshire) and Sharon Krishek (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

CAN PREFERENTIAL LOVE BE NEIGHBOURLY?

In Works of Love, does Kierkegaard either overlook or undervalue the moral importance of 'special relationships' such as friendship and romantic love? In Kierkegaard on Faith and Love (2009), Sharon Krishek suggests that Works of Love spoils some of Kierkegaard's own best earlier insights. In Kierkegaard and the Problem of Self-Love (2013) John Lippitt argues that Works of Love itself has the resources to address Krishek's charge. In this dialogue, Krishek and Lippitt will present and discuss their respective views, considering the question of precisely what it is that Works of Love owes us.

15.30 Steven Shakespeare (Liverpool Hope University)

KIERKEGAARD AND THE INTELLECTUAL LOVE OF GOD

Spinoza’s intellectual love of God bears an uncanny resemblance to the role of love in Kierkegaard's work yet is the expression of a thoroughgoing philosophical monism and immanence, which seems to make it alien to Kierkegaard's approach. This paper seeks to test the limits of that distinction, and to determine the extent to which Kierkegaardian love is at its most radical when it is most immanent.

For further details, please contact Professor George Pattison ([email protected]).