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 has taught on a number of programmes at St Andrews, including, most recently, a class on phenomenology and art for the Theology and the Arts MLitt for the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts ‘Practical Criticism’ module and the eco-philosophy module for the SASP Philosophy MLitt.
Dr Leung is currently 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 theology and philosophy (in journals including Philosophy, Continental Philosophy Review, Studies in Christian Ethics, the Neue Zeitschrift, and Modern Theology—where two of his articles were respectively recognised as ‘top-cited’ and ‘top-downloaded’ articles of 2022–2023), as well as cultural studies (in journals such as Theory, Culture & Society, Textual Practice, and Telos). 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 and Recent Teaching
DI5453 Practical Criticism (Special topic series on phenomenology and art)
PY5215 Ecophilosophy (Sessions on phenomenology, technology, and new materalism)
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)
DI5355 Persons: Divine and Human (On topics including race, technology and personhood)
Research areas
Dr Leung's research is primarily at the intersection of philosophy, theology, and culture, with an emphasis on the phenomenology of human existence and experience, particularly spiritual yearnings and desires for the sacred and the divine. His other research interests include the metaphysics of transcendental properties, philosophies and theologies of selfhood, and the sacred/secular divide in conetmporary philosophy and the broader humanities, culture and the arts.
PhD supervision
- Lee Wakeman
- Spencer Davidson
Selected publications
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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
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Nothingness without reserve: Fred Moten contra Heidegger, Sartre, and Schelling
Leung, K-H., May 2023, In: Comparative and Continental Philosophy. 15, 1-2, p. 45-57Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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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
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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
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Compliant and impetuous: the phenomenology of existence in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels
Leung, K-H. & Walker, R., 9 May 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Textual Practice. Latest Articles, 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
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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
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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
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Platonic metaphysics and the ontology of International Relations: a sketch
Leung, K-H., 1 Jun 2022, In: International Relations. 36, 2, p. 176-191 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review