The Romanian Society for Phenomenology

Born in 1976, Sibiu, Romania

University Degrees

09. 2008 - Postdoctoral Fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
07. 2007 - Ph. D. in Religious Studies, McMaster University, Canada.
09. 2002 - M.A. in Philosophy, Brock University, Canada.
02. 2001 - B.A. in Philosophy, Bucharest University, Romania.


Books

Either Nothingness or Love. On Alterity in Søren Kierkegaard’s Writings, Saarbrucken: VDM Dr. Müller Verlag, 2009.

Co-editor of Filozofie si dualism [Dualism and Philosophy; in Romanian], L. Stan and Vlad Puescu (eds.), Bucharest: Zeta Books, 2009.

Introduction to Filozofie si dualism, co-authored with Vlad Puescu, Bucharest: Zeta Books Publishers, 2009, 7-25.

“Soteriological Dualism?” in Filozofie si dualism, Leo Stan and Vlad Puescu (eds.), Bucharest: Zeta Books Publishers, 2009, 131-151.

“A Few (Frightening) Reflections on the ‘Pitesti Phenomenon’,” Verso 50-51 (1-31 Dec. 2008): 36-37.

“Short Foray into Danish Anti-Ecclesiology.” Idei în Dialog, 5 (44), May 2008: 36-37.
“On Geese, Caricatures, and Martyrs.” Idei în Dialog, 11 (38), November 2007: 5-6.
“The Unbearable Proteanism of Irony.”  Idei în Dialog, 5 (32), May 2007: 44-45.
“Imago (Movens) Dei: on Film and Phenomenology of Religion.” Adevarul Literar si Artistic, 14 March 2007, Year XVI, Issue 862.
“The Reversed Theodicy of the Pitesti Phenomenon” Idei în Dialog, 9 (24), September 2006: 30.
“Kierkegaard: Writing for the Sake of Existing.” Idei în Dialog, 7 (22), July 2006: 26-8.
“Kierkegaard on the Couch. A Psychoanalytical Approach of His Life.” Psihanaliza, Bucharest, VI 4/1999: 7-11.

Articles and Book Chapters in English

Published

“Modernity and Christian Offensiveness. An Ongoing Scandal,” Acta Kierkegaardiana 4, 2009.

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

“God’s Exacting Agape of Singular Individuals: A Kierkegaardian Corrective,” Acta Kierkegaardiana 3, Roman Kralik (ed.), 2008, 142-151.
“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.
“The Angelic Absence of Angels: Reading Kierkegaard with Professor Plesu,” in Festschrift in Honour of Andrei Plesu, Mihail Neamtu and Bogdan Tataru-Cazaban (eds.), 2009.
“Chrysostom: Between the Hermitage and the City.” In Kierkegaard and the Patristic and Medieval Tradition, Jon Stewart (ed.), Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008; 47-66.
"Prelude to An Enigma: Aristophanes’ Account of Eros in Plato’s Symposium." The Annals of University Dunarea de Jos, Fascicle XVII (3), 2004: 3-21.

Forthcoming
“A Reconsideration of Kierkegaard's Understanding of the Human Other: The Hidden Ethics of Soteriology,” in Journal of Religious Ethics, June 2010.
“The Lilies in the Field,” in Kierkegaard and the Bible. Tome II: The New Testament, Lee C. Barrett (ed.), Aldershot: Ashgate.
“Michel Henry. The Goodness of Living Affectivity,” in Kierkegaard’s Influence on Existentialism, Jon Stewart (ed.), Aldershot: Ashgate.
“Albert Camus. Walled within God,” in Kierkegaard’s Influence on Existentialism, Jon Stewart (ed.), Aldershot: Ashgate.
“Jean-Luc Marion. The Paradoxical Givenness of Love,” Kierkegaard's Influence on Philosophy, Tome II: Francophone Philosophy, Jon Stewart (ed.), Aldershot: Ashgate.
“Mircea Eliade. On Religion, Cosmos, and Agony,” in Kierkegaard’s Influence on the Social Sciences, Jon Stewart (ed.), Aldershot: Ashgate.
“Slavoj Žižek. Mirroring the Absent God,” in Kierkegaard’s Influence on the Social Sciences, Jon Stewart (ed.), Aldershot: Ashgate.
“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.

Translations

Alphonso Lingis, “Viata netraita nu merita sa fie examinata.” Analele Universitatii Dunarea de Jos,  Fascicle XVIII, II/2004, nr. 4: 250-254.
Søren Kierkegaard, Frica si cutremur, Bucharest: Humanitas, 2002.
Robert D. Kaplan, Anarhia care o sa vina, Bucharest: Antet Publishers, 2000.

Book Reviews

Karen L. King, What Is Gnosticism?, Cambridge/London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003. Archaeus 10 (2006): 204-10.
Carl B. Smith II, No Longer Jews: The Search for Gnostic Origins, Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 2004. Archaeus 10 (2006): 184-90.
Attilio Mastrocinque, From Jewish Magic to Gnosticism, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005. Archaeus 10 (2006): 184-90.
Gerard P. Luttikhuizen, Gnostic Revisions of Genesis Stories and Early Jesus Traditions, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2006. Archaeus 10 (2006): 162-66.
Einar Thomassen, The Spiritual Seed: The ‘Church’ of the Valentinians, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2006. Archaeus 10 (2006): 157-62.
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): 581-2.
Michael Allen Williams, Rethinking ‘Gnosticism’: An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category, Princeton/New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996. Archaeus 8 (2004), 1-4: 446-52.
Sylvia Walsh, Living Poetically. Kierkegaard’s Existential Aesthetics, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania University Press, 1994. Archaeus 8 (2004), 1-4: 254-62.
George Pattison, Kierkegaard’s Upbuilding Discourses: Philosophy, Theology, Literature, London/New York: Routledge, 2002. Archaeus 8 (2004), 1-4: 247-54.
Jon Stewart, Kierkegaard’s Relations to Hegel Reconsidered, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Archaeus 8 (2004), 1-4: 237-47.
“Kierkegaard and Chuang Tzu.” (co-authored with Dr. Hans-Georg Moeller) 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.

Conference Talks and Lectures

“Kierkegaard?s Philosophical Psychology,” Guest lecture in the Philosophy Department, Oakland University, 8 October 2009.

“Divine Gift and Human Freedom. Heidegger, Derrida, Kierkegaard,” The Doctor Marko Zlomislic Conference, Brock University, 17 September 2009.

“Kierkegaard and the (Divine) Time of Self,” The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario, 9 April 2009.
“Kierkegaard against Onto-Theology from Within,” Trinity College, University of Toronto, 25 November 2008.
“On the Threefold Structure of Kierkegaard’s View of Temporality,” American Association of Religion. Eastern Regional Meeting, McGill University, Montreal, 2-3 May 2008.
“The Redemptive Tragedy of Reason: Søren Kierkegaard and the Heterogeneity of Faith,” Reason and Faith Colloquium, New Europe College, Bucharest, 7-8 May 2008.
“Introduction to Kierkegaard’s Authorship.” Lectures series offered at The Romanian Society of Phenomenology, Bucharest, 14-16 February 2008.
“Soteriological Dualism?” Philosophy and Dualism Colloquium. Bucharest, Romania, 26-28 October 2007.
“Is Kierkegaard an Onto-Theologian?” Presentation offered in the Summer Course on Religious Metaphors and Philosophical Concepts: New Perspectives on Phenomenology and Theology, Sâmb?ta de Sus, 29 August - 5 September 2007.
“On Kierkegaard’s View of Christological Temporality.” International Colloquium on New Perspectives on Phenomenology and Theology, Sibiu, Romania, 25-26 August 2007.
Guest Lecturer in The Department of Philosophy and The Department of Theology, St. Olaf College, Minnesota. Four lectures on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Emil Cioran.
“Is Smith Returning with Kierkegaard to the Incarnational Particularism in Order to Open a Non-Exclusivist Universalism?” The James K.A. Smith Conference, Brock University, Ontario, 23-24 March 2006.
“Beastly Suffering: Shoah, the Pite?ti Phenomenon, and the (Im)possibility of Christian Theodicy.” European Congress for the History of Religions, University of Bucharest, 20-23 September 2006.
“Wagering for/against the Divine: Pascal, Kierkegaard’s Abraham, and C?rt?rescu’s The Roulette Player.” Gambling Theory Symposium, The Center for the Study of Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario, 13 October 2004.
“On Kierkegaard’s View of Love: A Philosophical Approach.” Brock University, Department of Philosophy, 20 June 2003.
“Between Philosophy and Theology: Kierkegaard’s Notion of Repetition.” Kierkegaard Symposium, Bucharest University, Department of Philosophy in collaboration with Kierkegaard Research Centre, 22 April 1999.

Organizational Experience

Staff member of the European Congress for the History of Religions, Bucharest University, 20-23 September 2006.

Institutional Affiliations

Grants and Scholarships

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, Canada, September 2008 – September 2010.
The Ontario Graduate Scholarship, January-December 2006.
The Kierkegaard House Foundation Grant, June 2005 – June 2006.
Prof. Ernest E. Goldsmith Bursary - January 2002.
The Democracy Fund, Denmark, February-June 2000.