Tag: eulogies
14 Jan, 2020
Scruton, the grateful philosopher, departs
Roger Scruton, a friend of Central Europe, author, teacher, and philosopher, has passed. In what surely must be one of his last living publications Scruton declared in The Spectator that 2019 gave him...
23 Feb, 2018
When the family historian leaves: Per Edfeldt (1939- 2018)
We all have to go in the end. Nevertheless when someone close to us departs it leaves a gap and a trace. Who was this person who left us last night?
Our family historian, Per Edfeldt (1939-2018), was...
About Torgeir Fjeld
Torgeir Fjeld is a writer, publisher, and educational administrator, holding PhDs in Philosophy (EGS, 2017) and Cultural Theory (Roehampton, 2012). His publications include Introducing Ereignis: Philosophy, Technology, Way of Life (2022) and Rock Philosophy (2019), with articles in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, International Journal of Žižek Studies, and elsewhere. He serves as Head of Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts, Publisher at Tankebanen forlag, and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Inscriptions, and has taught at universities across North America, Europe, and Africa.
Torgeir Fjeld‘s latest talk was “Snow blind: on inoperativity and desolation in Askildsen, Fosse, and Naess” at 50 years of Scandinavian studies in Gdańsk, University of Gdańsk, Poland in November 2025.
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