I’m Leo Stan. I hold a BA and MA degree in Philosophy, as well as a doctorate in Religious Studies. My intellectual interests range from European philosophy and world religions to literature, political theory, and art (particularly, photography and film). I published extensively on the work of the Danish philosopher, Søren Kierkegaard. I taught and lectured within the Humanities at several US and Canadian universities.

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BOOKS
Selfhood and Otherness in Kierkegaard’s Authorship. A Heterological Investigation, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2017.


ARTICLES
Peer-Reviewed
“Fertile Contradictions. A Reconsideration of The Seducer’s Diary,” Kierkegaard Studies. Yearbook, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016: 75-97.

“Kierkegaard’s Social-Political Posterity. A Still Unnavigated Maze,” in A Companion to Kierkegaard, Vol. 4. Social Sciences and Politics, edited by Jon Stewart, Blackwell Publishing, 2015: 435-449.

 “From Singularity to Universality and Back,” Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 3-4 (2013): 611-632

“Risible Christianity? Kierkegaard versus Žižek,” Toronto Journal of Theology 28:2 (Fall 2012): 275-289

“The Hidden Ethics of Soteriology: A Reconsideration of Kierkegaard’s Understanding of the Human Other,” Journal of Religious Ethics 38.2 (June 2010): 349-370

“Kierkegaard on Temporality and God Incarnate,” in Philosophical Concepts and Religious Metaphors. New Perspectives on Phenomenology and Theology, Special issue of Studia Phaenomenologica, Cristian Ciocan (ed.), Bucharest: Zeta Books, 2009, 237-254

“Modernity and Christian Offensiveness. An Ongoing Scandal,” Acta Kierkegaardiana 4, 2009: 260-277

“On Universality and Christian Particularism in a Postmodern Trio: James K.A. Smith, Jacques Derrida, and Søren Kierkegaard,” in The Logic of Incarnation: James K.A. Smith’s Critique of Postmodern Religion, Neal DeRoo and Brian Lightbody (eds.). Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2008, 57-70

“God’s Exacting Agape of Singular Individuals: A Kierkegaardian Corrective,” Acta Kierkegaardiana 3, 2008: 142-151.

BOOK CHAPTERS
“Political Gaps: Slavoj Žižek and Søren Kierkegaard,” in Kierkegaard and Political Theory. Religion, Aesthetics, Politics and the Intervention of the Single Individual, edited by Armen Avanessian and Sophie Wennerscheid, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2014, 167-197.

 “Max Blecher. The Bizarre Adventure of Suffering,” in Kierkegaard’s Influence on Literature and Criticism,  Tome IV: The Romance Languages and Central and Eastern Europe, Jon Stewart (ed.), Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013, 3-19.

“Jean-Luc Marion. The Paradoxical Givenness of Love,” Kierkegaard’s Influence on Philosophy, Tome II: Francophone Philosophy, Jon Stewart (ed.), Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012, 207-231.

“Slavoj Žižek. Mirroring the Absent God,” in Kierkegaard’s Influence on the Social Sciences, Jon Stewart (ed.), Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011, 297-321.

“Mircea Eliade. On Religion, Cosmos, and Agony,” in Kierkegaard’s Influence on the Social Sciences, Jon Stewart (ed.), Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011, 55-80.

“Michel Henry. The Goodness of Living Affectivity,” in Kierkegaard and Existentialism, Jon Stewart (ed.), Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011, 127-154.

“Albert Camus. Walled within God,” in Kierkegaard and Existentialism, Jon Stewart (ed.), Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011, 63-94.

“The Lily in the Field and the Bird in the Air: An Endless Liturgy in Kierkegaard’s Authorship,” in Kierkegaard and the Bible. Tome II: The New Testament, Lee C. Barrett (ed.), Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010, 55-78.

 “The Angelic Absence of Angels: Reading Kierkegaard with Professor Pleşu,” in Memory, Humanity, and Meaning. Essays in Honour of Andrei Pleşu’s Sixtieth Anniversary, Mihail Neamţu and Bogdan Tătaru-Cazaban (eds.), Bucharest: Zeta Books, 2009, 297-312.

“Chrysostom: Between the Hermitage and the City,” in Kierkegaard and the Patristic and Medieval Tradition, Jon Stewart (ed.), Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, 47-66.

DICTIONARY ENTRIES
Kierkegaard’s Concepts, Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, Volume 15, ed. by Steven Emmanuel, William McDonald and Jon Stewart, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013-16.

    • Tome I: “Christ.”
    • Tome II: “Contemporaneity,” “the Crowd.”
    • Tome III: “Holy Spirit.” “Immanence/Transcendence.” “Imitation.”
    • Tome IV: “Leveling.”
    • Tome V: “Politics.” “Qualitative Difference.”
    • Tome VI: “Sin.” “the State.”

BIBLIOGRAPHIES
“Kierkegaard French Scholarship,” co-authored with Jon Stewart, in Kierkegaard Bibliography, Part II: Western Europe, Edited by Peter Šajda and Jon Stewart, Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, vol. 19, Burlington: Ashgate, 2016.

CO-EDITED BOOKS
Filozofie şi dualism [Dualism and Philosophy; in Romanian], Bucharest: Zeta Books, 2009.

TRANSLATIONS
Søren Kierkegaard, Frică şi cutremur [Fear and Trembling, Romanian translation from the Danish], Bucharest: Humanitas, 2002.

BOOKS REVIEWS
In Kierkegaard Secondary Literature, Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, Volume 18, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2016:

    • Mădălina Diaconu, Pe marginea abisului. Søren Kierkegaard si nihilismul secolului al XIX-lea, Bucharest: Editura Ştiinţifică, 1996
    • Mark Dooley, The Politics of Exodus. Kierkegaard’s Ethics of Responsibility, New York: Fordham University Press 2001
    • David J. Kangas, Kierkegaard’s Instant: On Beginnings, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press 2007
    • Grigore Popa, Existenţă şi adevăr la Sören Kierkegaard, Cluj: Dacia 1998
    • Bartholomew Ryan, Kierkegaard’s Indirect Politics. Interludes with Lukács, Schmitt, Benjamin, and Adorno, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2014
    • Sylvia Walsh, Living Poetically: Kierkegaard’s Existential Aesthetics, University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press 1994.

David L. Goicoechea, Agape and Personhood with Kierkegaard, Mother, and Paul (A Logic of Reconciliation from the Shamans to Today). Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2011. Toronto Journal of Theology 29:1 (2013), 203-205

Karen L. King, What Is Gnosticism?, Cambridge/London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003. Archaeus 10 (2006): 204-210.

Carl B. Smith II, No Longer Jews: The Search for Gnostic Origins, Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 2004. Archaeus 10 (2006): 184-190.

Attilio Mastrocinque, From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005. Archaeus 10 (2006): 184-190.

Gerard P. Luttikhuizen, Gnostic Revisions of Genesis Stories and Early Jesus Traditions, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2006. Archaeus 10 (2006): 162-166.

Einar Thomassen, The Spiritual Seed: The ‘Church’ of the Valentinians, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2006. Archaeus 10 (2006): 157-162.

Clare Carlisle, Kierkegaard’s Philosophy of Becoming: Movement and Positions, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005. Studies in Religion 35/3-4 (2006): 581-582.

Michael Allen Williams, Rethinking ‘Gnosticism’: An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category, Princeton/New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996. Archaeus 8 (2004), 1-4: 446-452.

Sylvia Walsh, Living Poetically. Kierkegaard’s Existential Aesthetics, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania University Press, 1994. Archaeus 8 (2004), 1-4: 254-262.

George Pattison, Kierkegaard’s Upbuilding Discourses: Philosophy, Theology, Literature, London / New York: Routledge, 2002. Archaeus 8 (2004), 1-4: 247-254.

Jon Stewart, Kierkegaard’s Relations to Hegel Reconsidered, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Archaeus 8 (2004), 1-4: 237-247.

Karen L. Carr and Philip J. Ivanhoe, The Sense of Antirationalism, New York / London: Seven Bridges Press, 2000. Philosophy East and West, 53/1, Jan. 2003: 131-136 [co-authored].