Ryan Kemp

Visit: AY 2026-2027

Project Title: The Role of Beauty in Kierkegaard’s Moral-Religious Psychology

Affiliation: Associate Professor of Philosophy, Wheaton College

Ryan Kemp works primarily in the history of 18th and 19th century European philosophy, with a particular focus on Kant, German Idealism, Kierkegaard, and existentialism. He is the author of Reason and Conversion in Kierkegaard and the German Idealists (with Christopher Iacovetti), Marilynne Robinson's Worldly Gospel (with Jordan Rodgers), and most recently What We Are in the Light: Essays for Humans.