Dr King-Ho Leung
Senior Research Fellow
Biography
King-Ho Leung joined the faculty at St Andrews in 2019, and was previously Lecturer in Philosophy and Theology at the University of Chester and Deputy Director of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy at the University of Nottingham.
Dr Leung is co-director of research of the £2 million major research project Widening Horizons in Philosophical Theology funded by the Templeton Religion Trust. He was recently elected as one of the 'Emerging Scholars in Political Theology' by the Political Theology Network and awarded a non-residential research fellowship for the Panentheism and Religious Life project hosted between Johns Hopkins University and King’s College London.
Dr Leung has published broadly in philosophy (in journals including Philosophy, Continental Philosophy Review, Theory, Culture & Society, and Telos), philosophical theology (Modern Theology and the Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie) and ethics (Studies in Christian Ethics and Political Theology). He is currently completing a book on the understanding of philosophy as a spiritual practice and its relation to contemporary conceptions of secularity.
Teaching
Current Teaching
DI5453 Practical Criticism
DI5355 Persons: Divine and Human
Previous Teaching
DI1012 Introduction to Practical Theology and Theological Ethics (Ethics component)
DI2010 Philosophical Theology (Modern philosophy component)
DI4928 Theological Anthropology (Module covenor and sole lecturer, 2019–2020)
Research areas
Dr Leung's research is primarily in post-Heideggerian philosophy, with an emphasis on metaphysics, phenomenology, selfhood, philosophy of religion, political theology and post-secularism. He is particularly interested in how understanding philosophy as a spiritual practice can inform our construal of the relation between philosophy and theology as well as the religious/secular divide.
PhD supervision
- Jack Johnson
- Lee Wakeman
- Jack Marsh
Selected publications
-
Open access
Transcendentality and nothingness in Sartre’s atheistic ontology
Leung, K-H., Oct 2020, In: Philosophy. 95, 4, p. 471-495Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
-
Open access
Nothingness without reserve: Fred Moten contra Heidegger, Sartre, and Schelling
Leung, K-H., 24 Jun 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Comparative and Continental Philosophy. Latest Articles, 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
-
Open access
The one, the true, the good… or not: Badiou, Agamben, and atheistic transcendentality
Leung, K-H., Mar 2021, In: Continental Philosophy Review. 54, 1, p. 75-97Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
-
Open access
Sartre and Marion on intentionality and phenomenality
Leung, K-H., 20 Jan 2022, In: Theory, Culture and Society. 39, 1, p. 41-60 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
-
Transcendentality and the gift: on Gunton, Milbank, and trinitarian metaphysics
Leung, K-H., 1 Jan 2022, In: Modern Theology. 38, 1, p. 81-99 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
-
Open access
Transcendentality and conversation: on the Trinity and ‘word-exchange’
Leung, K-H., 1 Oct 2022, In: Modern Theology. 38, 4, p. 796-816 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
-
Open access
Hart and Sartre on God and consciousness
Leung, K-H., 2021, In: International Journal of Philosophy and Theology. 82, 1, p. 34-50Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
-
Open access
The technologisation of grace and theology: meta-theological insights from transhumanism
Leung, K-H., 13 Aug 2020, In: Studies in Christian Ethics. 33, 4, p. 479-495Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
-
Open access
The picture of artificial intelligence and the secularization of thought
Leung, K-H., 18 Aug 2019, In: Political Theology. 20, 6, p. 457-471Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
-
Living Paradoxes: on Agamben, Taylor, and human subjectivity
Leung, K-H., 20 Jun 2019, In: Telos. 2019, 187, p. 85-106Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review