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Edward F. Mooney
 Professor of Religion and Philosophy

Office: 501C Hall of Languages
Phone: 315-443-3861
efmooney@syr.edu

Professor Mooney teaches courses in the Religion and Philosophy Departments, relying on authors as diverse as Kierkegaard, Cavell, Nussbaum, Lao Tzu, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Heidegger, Thoreau, and Iris Murdoch. His writings include On Søren Kierkegaard: Dialogue, Polemics, Lost Intimacy and Time (2007), and two other books on Kierkegaard, a figure who defines for him the vital intersection of religion, philosophy, and literature. Postcards Dropped in Flight is a lyric meditation. The Loss of Intimacy in American Thought: Recovering Personal Philosophy from Thoreau to Cavell will appear in October 2009. He has inherited the philosophical papers of the Thoreauvian philosopher Henry Bugbee, and edited a collection of essays on his thought. He has published a bit over 60 chapters, articles, and reviews on a variety of topics including ethics, love, faith, prayer, objectivity, and feminism. He enjoys teaching undergraduates and enjoys working with graduates on their theses and dissertations.

Courses:

REL 191 Religion, Meaning and Knowledge
REL 396 Mysticism
PHI 325 Existentialism
Thoreau as a Religious Philosopher, Seminar
Affliction: Dostoevsky/Levinas, Seminar

Education:

Ph.D., Philosophy, UC, Santa Barbara (1968)
B.A., Philosophy, Oberlin College (1962)
Career:
  • Professor, Departments of Religion and Philosophy, Syracuse University, 2002-present
  • Professor of Philosophy, Sonoma State University, 1975-2002
  • Assist/Assoc. Professor, Sonoma State University, 1968-75

Recent Papers:

Publications:

Books:

pic Kierkegaard's Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs, Editor and Introduction, Oxford World Classis, 2009
On Soren Kierkegaard: Polemics, Dialogue, Lost Intimacy and Time, Ashgate, 2007.
Ethics, Love, and Faith in Kierkegaard: A Philosophical Engagement, editor, Indiana University Press, 2008.
Postcards Dropped in Flight, Codhill Press, 2006.
Picture of Book Wilderness and the Heart: Henry Bugbee's Philosophy of Place, Presence, and Memory, editor. Foreword by Alasdair MacIntyre, U of Georgia Press, 1999.
Picture of Book Selves in Discord and Resolve: Kierkegaard's Moral-Religious Psychology from Either/Or to Sickness Unto Death, Routledge, 1996.
Picture of Book Knights of Faith and Resignation: Reading Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling, State University of New York Press, 1991.
  The Loss of Intimacy in American Thought: Recovering Personal Philosophy from Thoreau to Cavell, Continuum Books, 2009

Chapters and Introductions:

  • Indirect Communication, Critical Studies in Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript, ed. Gordon Marino, Cambridge, 2010.
  • Wonder and Affliction: Thoreau's Dionysian World, Thoreau's Significaance as a Philosopher, ed. Rick Anthony Furtak, Stanford, 2010.
  • Three Decades of Kierkegaard Commentary, Festschrift for Robert Perkins, Mercer University Press, 2010.
  • "Explorations of a Strange yet Familiar Terrain: Kierkegaard's Ethics" Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, 62 no. 3 (2009).
  • “Kierkegaard's 20th Century Reception," in Ethics, Love and Faith in Kierkegaard: A Philosophical Engagement, Indiana University Press 2008.
  • “Postscript Ethics," Ethics, Love, and Faith in Kierkegaard: ed. Edward F. Mooney, Indiana University Press, 2008.
  • “Love, that Lenient Interpreter" in The Wisdom of Love, ed. Bruce Benson, Indiana University Press, 2007.
  • “Aspects of Postscript Ethics: Putting Personality on Stage,” in French trans., Pensée et problèmes de l'éthique chez Søren Kierkegaard , The University Press of Lille University, Presses du Septentrion, 2007.
  • "Becoming What We Pray: Passion's Gentler Resolutions," in The Phenomenology of Prayer, ed. Bruce Benson and Norman Wirzba. Fordham University Press, 2005.
  • "Self-choice or Self-reception: Judge Wilhelm's Admonition," in 19th Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 125, ed. Edna Hedblad. The Gale Group, 2003.
  • "Can History Begin in a Glance? Mutual Reflexive Recognition in Kierkegaard's Concept of Anxiety," Kierkegaard and The Word, ed. Gordon Marino. Reitzels, Copenhagen, 2003.
  • "Words that Silence as They Build: Against a Boundlessly Loquacious Mind," International Kierkegaard Commentary, Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses, ed. Robert L. Perkins. Mercer University Press, 2003.
  • "Judge Williams' Admonition," "Ordeals of Silence," and "Abraham Contra Socrates," chapters from Selves in Discord ('96) and Knights of Faith ('91} included in Kierkegaard: Critical Appraisals, Four Vols., ed. Daniel W. Conway. Routledge, New York, 2002.
  • "Moriah in Tivoli: Introducing the Spectacular Fear and Trembling," Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook, 2002. de Gruyter, New York, 2002.
  • "The Perils of Polarity: Kierkegaard and MacIntyre on the Search for Moral Truth," Kierkegaard After MacIntyre, Narrative, Virtue, and Freedom, eds. John Davenport and Anthony Rudd. Open Court, 2001.
  • "Philosophy in Wilderness," introduction to Henry Bugbee's The Inward Morning, Philosophical Explorations in Journal Form, foreword by Gabriel Marcel, originally published by Bald Eagle Press, 1958, reissue by University of Georgia Press, 1999.
  • "When Philosophy becomes Lyric" in Wilderness and the Heart, ed. Edward F. Mooney. University of Georgia Press, 1999.
  • "Exemplars, Inwardness, and Belief: Kierkegaard on Indirect Communication," International Kierkegaard Commentary: Concluding Unscientific Postscript, ed. Robert L. Perkins. Mercer University Press, 1997.
  • "Repetition," in Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, eds. Alastair Hannay and Gordon Marino. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • "Should Kant Approve of Abraham," in Japanese in Kierkegaard and Language, ed. and trans. Kinya Masugata. Showaado Publishing House, Kyoto, Japan, 1998.
  • "Self Choice or Self Reception: Judge William's Admonition," International Kierkegaard Commentary: Either / Or II, ed. Robert L. Perkins. Mercer University Press, 1995.
  • "The Teleological Suspension Revisited" in Japanese translation in Kierkegaard -- Trials ofNew Interpretation, ed. and trans. Kinya Masugata. Showaado Publishing House, Kyoto, Japan, 1993 (pp. 109-134).
  • "Art, Deed, and System: The Prefaces," International Kierkegaard Commentary: Fear and Trembling, ed. Robert L. Perkins. Mercer University Press, 1993 (pp. 68-111).
  • Getting Isaac Back: Ordeals and Reconciliations," Foundations of Kierkegaard's Vision of Community, ed. Connell and Evans. Humanities Press, 1991 (pp. 71-95).
  • "Understanding Abraham: Care, Faith, and the Absurd," Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling: Critical Appraisals, ed. Robert L. Perkins. University of Alabama Press, 1981 (pp. 100-114).

Journal and Encyclopedia Articles:

  • Thoreau's Translations: Fuller, John Brown, Lilies, The Concord Saunterer, July 2009.
  • Kierkegaard at the APA (?), Søren Kierkegaard Newsletter, Spring 2009.
  • "Perservative Care: Saving Intimate Voice in the Humanities" Soundings, Winter 2009.
  • Meditations on Death and the Sublime, Journal for Culture and Religious Theory February 2009.
  • "Whatever Happened to Ordinary Subjectivity? Recovering an Aspiration for Passion, Poetry, and Wisdom" Spring Journal, special issue edited by David Miller and Ed Casey, 2008.
  • "Acknowledgement, Suffering, and Praise: Stanley Cavell as Religious Continental Thinker," Soundings, Fall 2005.
  • “Kierkegaard in Europe and America,” Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, 2007.
  • "How to Revoke a Book and Keep it Too." Kierkegaardiana , 2007.
  • "Henry Bugbee," entry, Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers , Thoemmes Press, 2005.
  • "Sympathy," entry in Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. Lawrence C. Becker, et. al., Garland Publishing, 1992 (pp. 1222-1225); and in Encyclopedia of Ethics, revised edition, 2001.
  • "What has Hegel to Do with Henry James? Acknowledgment, Dependence, and Having a Life of One's Own," Inquiry [Oslo], 2002. Symposium with Richard Rorty and Daniel Conway on Robert B. Pippin, Henry James and Modern Moral Life, Chicago, 1999.
  • "Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love," short review of book of that title for Religious Studies Review, Spring 2003.
  • "Two Testimonies in American Philosophy: Stanley Cavell and Henry Bugbee," Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2003.
  • "Primal Ground: Addiction and Hunger for the Wild," Human Studies. December, 2001.
  • "Kierkegaard's Category of Repetition," Kierkegaard Newsletter, March 2002.
  • "A Lyric Philosophy of Place: Henry Bugbee's The Inward Morning," Soundings, Fall, 1999.
  • "Sounding the Religious-Humanistic Self," Kierkegaard Newsletter, Spring, 1998.
  • "Postcards Dropped in Flight," Terra Nova, a Journal of Nature and Culture, Spring 1998 (pp 75-87). Selected a "Notable Essay for 1998" by editors, The Best American Essays, 1999, Houghton Mifflin 1999.
  • "Response to Hall's Critique," Kierkegaard Newsletter, Spring 1994.
  • "Kierkegaard's Job Discourse: Getting Back the World," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, December 1993.
  • "The Music of the Spheres: Kierkegaardian Selves and Transformations," International Philosophical Quarterly, Fall, 1992.
  • "Should Kant Approve of Abraham?," Kierkegaard Newsletter, 1992; Reprinted in Japanese translation in Kierkegaard and Language, ed. Kinya Masugata, Showaado Publishing House, Kyoto, Japan, 1998.
  • "Kierkegaard Our Contemporary: Care, Reason, & the Self," Southern Journal of Philosophy, 1989.
  • "Living with Double Vision: Objectivity, Subjectivity, and Human Understanding," a critical notice of Thomas Nagel's The View from Nowhere. Inquiry, June 1988.
  • "Gender, Philosophy, and the Novel," Metaphilosophy, July/ Oct. 1987.
  • "Abraham and Dilemma: The Teleological Suspension Revisited," The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Oct. 1986; Reprinted in Japanese translation in Kierkegaard -- Trials of New Interpretation, ed. Kinya Masugata, Showaado Publishing House, Kyoto, Japan, 1993 (pp. 109-134).
  • "Preserving Fear and Trembling," Kierkegaard Newsletter, Oct. 1985.
  • "Religious Commitment," Sophia, April 1973.
  • "Care, Responsibility, and Guilt: Notes on The Stranger," Humanitas, 1973.
  • "Assertion and Commitment in Religious Belief," Sophia, 1971.
  • "Commitment and Belief," Man and World, 1970.
  • "A Renewal of Self and World: The Book of Job," Cross-Currents 1970.
  • "Nietzsche and the Dance," Philosophy Today, 1970.

Reviews:

  • "Jamie Fereirra's Kierkegaard," Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, April 2009.
  • Steve Evans, Kierkegaard on Ethics and the Self, in Review of Metaphysics, 2008.
  • Bruce Wilshire, Fashionable Nihilism: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy, Parabola, 2004.
  • Amy Laura Hall, "Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love," Religious Studies Review, Spring 2003.
  • Bruce Wilshire's Primal Roots of American Thought, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, October 2002.
  • "Hunger for the Wild: Bruce Wilshire's Wild Hunger: The Primal Roots of Modern Addiction," short review in Call to Earth: Journal of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy, March 2001.
  • "Passionate Reason and Reasonable Passions: the Case for Philosophical Fragments," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Critical Review of Books in Religion, Fall 1994.
  • "Loneliness," review of Ben Mijuskovia, Loneliness, in The Journal of Modern Sociology, Winter 1988.
  • "Faith and Belief," review of A. J. Burgess, Passion, 'Knowing How,' and Understanding, The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1981.
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