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Contemplation and the Imagination

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University of Virginia

The Thomistic Institute at UVA, the GK Chesterton Society at UVA, and the St. Anselm Institute present a lecture by Prof. Kevin Hart of the University of Virginia titled “Contemplation and the Imagination.”

This lecture will be delivered over Zoom. Register below to receive the Zoom information.

Monday, April 12

6:30 pm ET

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:

Kevin Hart is the Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia where he also holds professorships in the Departments of English and French. His most recent scholarly books include Kingdoms of God (Indiana UP, 2014) and Poetry and Revelation (Bloomsbury, 2017). Among the books he has edited are JeanLuc Marion: The Essential Writings (Fordham UP, 2013) and The Exorbitant: Emmanuel Levinas between Jews and Christians(Fordham UP, 2010). He is currently editing the fifth volume of a multivolume series The Bible and Literature, which will appear with Bloomsbury in 2020. His poetry is gathered in Wild Track: New and Selected Poems (Notre Dame UP, 2015) and Barefoot (Notre Dame UP, 2018). Among other honors, he holds an honorary doctoral degree in Philosophy from the Institut Catholique de Paris.

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