• For the definitive overview on Kierkegaard's reception in Australia, see  William McDonald's chapter "Australia: An Archaeology of Silence of Kierkegaard's Philosophical Reception" in  Jon Stewart (ed.) Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources Vol. 8, Tome III: Kierkegaard's International Reception - The Near East, Asia, Australia and the Americas (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009) pp.175-94
• Kierkegaard Studies in Australasia is also mentioned in Maurita Harney's entry on Existentialism in Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand (Melbourne: Monash University Press, 2010), which you can download for free as an eBook.
• For links to the latest publications by Australian Kierkegaardians, see the 'People' section.
  

• Michael Allen Fox (Queen's University and University of New England) asks us to bring to your attention his book The Remarkable Existentialists published by  Prometheus Books, 2008. Click here for review comments on this book and here for an order form.

Kierkegaard Stream at the AAP Conference, 2007

A Kierkegaard stream was held at the 2007 Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) Conference, hosted by the Discipline of Philosophy, University of New England, from Sunday 1 July to Friday 6 July in Armidale, NSW, Australia. The following papers were presented:

• John Lippitt (University of Hertfordshire):

Kierkegaardian Love, Friendship and Contemporary Virtue Ethics

• William McDonald (University of New England):

Demonic Boredom

• Annette Larrea (University of Sydney):

Introducing Ethics to Anxiety

• Kinya Masugata (Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute, Mukogawa Women's University)

Kierkegaard and Kanzo Uchimura

• Patrick Stokes (University of Melbourne):

  See For Your Self: Contemporaneity and Co-Presence

Abstracts of papers can be found here.

Please send details of any Kierkegaard-related news, publications, presentations or conferences to Patrick Stokes.