Join us Thurs., Feb. 11, 5 – 7 pm, as College of Charleston professor Sheridan Hough discusses and signs copies of her most recent book, Kierkegaard’s Dancing Tax Collector (Oxford UP, hb., 208 pp, $40).
With a cover designed by local artist Duke Hagerty, her third book explores Kierkegaard’s conception of self and faith through the lens of a character proposed in Fear and Trembling. Hough embarks on a significant ‘existential/ phenomenological’ investigation into the abilities of the faithful life by analyzing Kierkegaard’s spheres of existence, each sphere revealing a specific kind of significance, and indeed a way of “being in the world.” Additionally, she touches on Kierkegaard’s reaching influence on existential philosophers including Heidegger and de Beauvoir.
A Bay Area native, Hough has been teaching at the College of Charleston since 1997. In 2007 she became the first woman to reach the rank of full professor in the College’s Department of Philosophy. She and her husband now split their time between Charleston and Northern California.
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