"Did Reason Ever Go Mad?": Fondane, Husserl, Shestov, and a Little Beyond
Professor Kevin Hart (University of Virginia)
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Kevin Hart is the Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Thought in the Department
of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. Among his principal publications
are The Trespass of the Sign: Deconstruction, Theology and Philosophy
(Cambridge UP, 1989), The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred
(Chicago UP, 2004), Postmodernism: A Beginner’s Guide (Oneworld, 2004),
Kingdoms of God (Indiana UP, 2014), and Poetry and Revelation: For a
Phenomenology of Religious Poetry (Bloomsbury, 2017). He is the editor of,
among other things, The Oxford Book of Australian Religious Verse (Oxford UP,
1994), Counter-Experiences: Reading Jean-Luc Marion (Notre Dame UP, 2007),
Clandestine Encounters: Philosophy in the Narratives of Maurice Blanchot (Notre
Dame UP, 2010), and Jean-Luc Marion’s The Essential Writings (Fordham UP,
2013). He is currently editing the fifth volume of the series The Bible and
Literature for Bloomsbury, and revising a new critical study, Blanchot Encore. He
is the author of eight volumes of poetry and three selections of his poems, the
most recent of which are Wild Track: New and Selected Poems (Notre Dame UP,
2015) and Barefoot (Notre Dame UP, 2018). He holds an honorary doctorate in
Philosophy from the Institut Catholique de Paris, and is to give the Gifford
Lectures in Glasgow in the Fall of 2020.