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Jesse Goodman
Jesse Goodman
Contact
Stokes Hall North 220C
Email: jesse.goodman@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., Belmont University
- M.A., Duquesne University
Courses
Philosophy of the Person
Research Interests
19th and 20th Century Philosophy
Metaphysics and Philosophy of Religion
Political Philosophy
Aesthetics and Comparative Literature
Department
Biography
Jesse D. Goodman is a second-year PhD. student and teaching fellow. He is primarily interested in 19th and 20th century philosophy, especially Anglophone, German, and Scandinavian philosophies from the “long nineteenth century” (1789-1914). He is also interested in contemporary aesthetics and political philosophy, especially as they relate to the cultural and political inheritances of the 19th century. To this end, his work has engaged philosophers including Søren Kierkegaard, Walter Benjamin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Delany, and Ottobah Cugoano, and artists and poets including T.S Eliot, Marcel Duchamp, Bob Dylan, and Robert Smithson. Prior to Boston College, he received a B.A. from Belmont University and an M.A. from Duquesne University, both in philosophy. In his rare time off, he enjoys non-philosophical reading and writing, hiking, and picking country guitar.
Publications
“In a Flash of Lightning: Conversion and the Non-Object Through Kierkegaard and Eliot,” Religions, Special Issue: Experience and Non-Objects: The Limits of Intuition vol. 16 no. 11, Oct. 2025, DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16111345
“Étant donnés as Temporal Model: Experience, Allegory, Incarnation.” Art Style Magazine, vol. 15, no. 1, 2025 DOI 10.5281/zenodo.14941172
“Revelation at Hand: Artistic Distance, or Prophetic Sense.” Metaxy Journal: Filosofia, arte, riconoscimento vol. 3. 2024
Presentations
Internal WIP Presentation: “Contemporary Followers: Kierkegaard's Past(s) and Present Revelation”, Kierkegaard Summer Institute, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, MN (USA), June 2026
“Cugoano’s Divine Violence: Theology and Revolution in Thoughts and Sentiments” 1st Annual Paper Workshop, New England Society for Continental Philosophy, Fairfield University, CT (USA) 2026
“The Meistersinger and his Shadow: Nietzsche’s Wagner and the Project of European Renewal” 19th Century German Philosophy Graduate Student Workshop, Boston-Area Consortium for Kant and 19th Century German Philosophy, Boston, MA (USA) 2026
“Arm in Arme, höher stets und höher: Hegel and the Problem of Quotation” Northeast Modern Language Association, Pittsburgh, PA (USA) 2026
“The Actuality of Incarnation: Kierkegaard’s Rupture with Hegel” Post-Hegelian Horizons: Ruptures, Returns, Echoes, DePaul University Graduate Conference, Chicago, IL (USA) 2026
“The Present Author: Incarnation and Governance between Kierkegaard’s Point of View and Practice” 7th Annual Northeast Philosophy of Religion Colloquium, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY (USA) 2025
SERVICE
Co-Founder and Co-Organizer, MAP at Boston College
Organizer, MAP BC Works-in-Progress Presentations, 2026-2027