Jon Stewart (philosopher)
American philosopher
Jon Bartley Stewart is an American philosopher and historian of philosophy. He specializes in 19th century Continental philosophy with an emphasis on the thought of Kierkegaard and Hegel. He has also worked in the field of Scandinavian Studies and has made the culture of the Danish Golden Age better known internationally. Stewart currently works as a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
Education and career
Stewart earned his BA in Philosophy in 1984 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studied with David Hoy. He received his MA in 1986 and his PhD in 1992 from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied with Robert B. Pippin, Frederick A. Olafson and Henry Allison.
After his dissertation he worked at a post-doctoral scholar at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (where he worked with Ludwig Siep), the Université Libre in Brussels (where he worked with Marc Richir), and the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin (where he worked with Volker Gerhardt).
Starting in 1996 Stewart worked for several years at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen. In 2003 he defended his Habilitation thesis at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen. In 2007 he completed a second Habilitation thesis, this time in Philosophy.
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