Toward the Final Crossroads : A Festschrift for Edna Hong and Howard Hong

by Lorentzen, Jamie

• ISBN13: 9780881461596
• ISBN10: 0881461598
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: Mercer Univ Pr

Summary

Edna Hong and Howard Hong have touched and influenced thousands upon thousands of students, colleagues, scholars, readers, and friends. To honor this contribution to the world, this text offers critical essays and personal memoirs from Kierkegaard and philosophy scholars, pastors, colleagues, friends, family members, and former students closely acquainted with the translations, teaching/writing/library activities, and personal lives of the Hongs.

Table of Contents

List of Photos and Illustrations	p. 6
Abbreviations	p. 7
Acknowledgment	p. 8
Foreword: A First Crossroads	p. 9
Times of Refreshing: On Edna Hatlestad Hong	p. 15
Howard Hong: Finding the Handles to Grasp Ideas	p. 19
Love and Kierkegaard	p. 26
Raised in a House Built of Books: Reading as a Way of Life	p. 35
Mom's Collection of Writings	p. 50
A New Ninth-Grade Lutheran Catechism	p. 54
On Howard and Edna, Translating	p. 61
Long-haul Partners	p. 62
The Steady Wind of Unhurried Translation	p. 66
Words from St. Olaf, June 1988: Edna and Howard on Kierkegaard, Gregor Malantschuk, and the Kierkegaard Library	p. 75
Kierkegaard, the Hongs, and toward a Perfectly Indirect Philosophizing	p. 80
The Hong Kierkegaard Library: A Research Collection at St. Olaf College	p. 91
Not Exactly Stanley and Livingston	p. 110
Untitled	p. 113
Driven by God: Kierkegaard's Parable of the Royal Coachmen	p. 115
Professor Hong's Message in Slovakia, behind the (Former) Iron Curtain	p. 142
An Invitation	p. 145
Works of Love	p. 149
One More Visit to the Hong House	p. 152
Contributors	p. 171
List of Photos and Illustrations
Edna and Howard. Courtesy of St Olaf College frontispiece A reading session in the Hong living room	p. 38
Howard reading to Theo	p. 40
Soren Kierkegaard	p. 61
Edna and Howard in the original Hong Kierkegaard Library, Holland Hall, 601. Courtesy of St. Olaf College	p. 64
Sketch of the Hong House. Courtesy of St. Olaf College	p. 158
Edna and Howard	p. 170
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