Carol Schersten LaHurd

Kierkegaard Trumping Trump

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Resources from Meister Eckhart to March Madness inform Curt Thompson’s exceptional call for individual and communal choices to overcome polarization and the disregard for truth and rule of law now endangering American democracy. He argues concretely and convincingly that Kierkegaard’s distinctive analysis of his own era’s moribund conformism can help us ‘resurrect’ democracy and thus ‘trump Trump.’ Thompson’s sophisticated SK primer reminds us how much we can learn from the wisdom of the past.”