Alison Rudd

Biographic Data

ID98752
NAMEAlison Rudd
GIVEN NAMESAlison
FAMILY NAMERudd
SIGNATURERUDD A
AFFILIATIONSSt. Olaf College
ORCID0000-0001-5305-5177
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • Kierkegaard on Hope and Faith

    Open AccessAlison RuddARTICLEReligions2023References: 13

    Faith, hope and love have often been classed together in the Christian tradition as the three "theological virtues". Kierkegaard does not use that label for them, but he does have a good deal to say about all three. This paper starts by examining hope, arguing that there is an Aristotelian-style virtue relating to hope (a mean between wishful and depressive thinking) and that Kierkegaard could consistently recognize it as a secular virtue. Howeve…

  • Joy as Presence: Reflections on Kierkegaard and Temporality

    Open AccessAlison Rudd, Anthony RuddARTICLEJournal of Religious Ethics2021

    Kierkegaard’s 1849 Discourses on The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air , place great emphasis on joy as a state in which one is present to oneself through living in the present moment. But this seems to conflict with the emphasis in Kierkegaard’s nearly contemporary The Sickness Unto Death on temporality as an essential aspect of human existence, and on the need to synthesize temporality and eternity in order to avoid despair. The two wor…

  • Understanding Paintings: The Icon as a Paradigm

    Alison Rudd, Anthony J RuddARTICLEReligion and the Arts2018

    Hans-Georg Gadamer has claimed, first, that in religious painting the image does not merely copy its prototype but is in “ontological communion” with it; and second, that in this respect the religious painting is exemplary for painting in general. I examine these claims with specific reference to Eastern Orthodox icons, drawing on both classical and modern Orthodox theological accounts of the icon to support and amplify Gadamer’s claim about “ont…

  • Postcolonial ghosts: Fantômes post-coloniaux

    Alison RuddARTICLEJournal of Postcolonial Writing2012

    edited by Melanie Joseph-Vilain and Judith Misrahi-Barak, with poems by Gerry Turcotte, Les Carnets du Cerpac No. 8, Montpellier, Presses Universitaires de la Mediterranee, 2009, 481 pp., €32.00, I

  • Jesus and Philosophy: New Essays – Edited by Paul Moser

    Open AccessAlison Rudd, Anthony RuddARTICLEReligious Studies Review2009

  • Kierkegaard on Patience and the Temporality of the Self: The Virtues of a Being in Time

    Open AccessAlison Rudd, Anthony RuddARTICLEJournal of Religious Ethics2008

    This paper examines Kierkegaard's discussion of patience in some of his Upbuilding Discourses , and its connection with his understanding of the nature of selfhood as it appears both in the Discourses and in The Sickness unto Death . That understanding stresses that selfhood is not simply given, but is a task to be achieved—although a task that can only be achieved by the self that is formed in the process of undertaking it. For Kierkegaard, an a…

  • Freedom and Religion in Kant and His Immediate Successors: The Vocation of Humankind, 1774‐1800 – George di Giovanni

    Open AccessAlison Rudd, Anthony RuddARTICLEReligious Studies Review2006

  • The New Wittgenstein

    Alison Rudd, Anthony RuddARTICLECommon Knowledge2003

  • Two Types of Externalism

    Alison Rudd, Anthony RuddARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1997

    A contrast is drawn between two types of externalism, one based on ideas of Wittgenstein, the other on arguments from Putnam. Gregory McCulloch’s attempt to combine the two types is then examined and criticized. Putnamian externalism is ambiguous. It can be interpreted either as the empirical claim that we give priority to scientific as opposed to other forms of discourse, or as a metaphysical claim that our language attempts to conform to the st…

  • Kierkegaard and the Limits of the Ethical

    C Stephen Evans, Alison Rudd et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1995