King-Ho Leung
@kingholeung
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Assistant Prof/Lecturer @kingstrs King’s College London | teaching and researching philosophy, religion, theology and the arts.
London, England
Joined September 2019
As Taylor Swift gets engaged and starts thinking about her wedding #vows… here’s something I wrote on the idea and practice of making promises:.
“Taylor Swift’s lyrics prompt questions that have plagued thinkers down the ages, stretching from Thomas Aquinas to Martin Luther to Giorgio Agamben: What difference does a promise really make?” @kingholeung .
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RT @jbrauscher: Le frère Jean-Pierre Torrell, op est décédé en ce jour de la Saint Augustin. Il a beaucoup contribué (jusqu’à ces derniers….
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Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, p. 184 (the old Lenhardt trans.):
So I was wrong to think that the secret way to access the noumenal was to read the first Critique from back to front instead.
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RT @GaskinHilary: Congratulations to Jens Timmermann on his new book, now available, which is the first monograph on one of #Kant’s most co….
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So I was wrong to think that the secret way to access the noumenal was to read the first Critique from back to front instead.
Just read the Critique of Pure Reason front to back—started yesterday morning and finished a couple hours ago (actually). I think I figured out how to cognize noumenon.
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Taking a little coffee (+ research/reading) break from marking…
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RT @IustusEt: Didn’t Garrigou-Lagrange go so far as to threaten Blondel, regardless of his great age, with God’s punishment in the next lif….
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Been there, and got terrible mosquito bites.
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RT @GaskinHilary: Congratulations to Robert Roberts, whose new book explores the structure of human #virtues — including generosity, compas….
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RT @CambUP_PHILNYUK: Don’t miss your chance to read new Cambridge Element Platonist Women by Crystal Addey Free access available until 12 A….
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The staff @PrufrockCoffee must have seen that I was reading about Kant on taste and aesthetic judgement and decided to offer me coffee samples to put my aesthetic judgement to the test:
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RT @JTasioulas: Philosophy beings with the illusory conviction that you, a humble first year undergraduate, can refute Plato.
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The article is available here, open access to bots and non-bots alike:.
tandfonline.com
This article offers a philosophical reading of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels by bringing the tetralogy into conversation with Jean-Paul Sartre’s phenomenological ontology. In addition to highl...
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An article I co-authored with @becky3105 on Elena Ferrante and existential authenticity and phenomenology in 𝘛𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 seems to be gaining some traction among bots… Are the bots trying to learn what it means to be #authentic?!
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In case anyone is interested in studying theology and literature in the UK OTHER THAN King's College London, which is of course the place to be.
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I (still) often get lost in the Maughan Library at King’s College London, but it’s a gorgeous building.
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Just brought home this reproduction of the Hereford Mappa Mundi—which I “inherited” at King’s College London (long story):
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RT @edithmayhall: Heartbroken to hear of the death of Professor Christopher Rowe, beloved father of the Durham Classics Department, outstan….
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