Robert L. Perkins

Robert Lee Perkins (June 23, 1930 Jacksonville, Florida - March 20, 2018) was a distinguished scholar of Søren Kierkegaard and Hegel at Stetson University.^[1][2][3]

Robert L. Perkins
Born	June 23, 1930 Jacksonville, Florida
Died	March 20, 2018 (aged 87)
Academic background
Education	Indiana University (PhD)
Thesis	Kierkegaard and Hegel: The Dialectical Structure of Kierkegaard's Ethical Thought (1965)
Doctoral advisor	Newton Phelps Stallknecht
Other advisors	Alan Donagan, Henry Veatch
Academic work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
Institutions	Stetson University

Life and works

Born in Jacksonville, Florida, after graduating from Stetson University in 1951, he was awarded a Bachelor of Divinity from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He received both his M.A. (1961) and Ph.D. (1964) from Indiana University Bloomington, and also earned a diploma from the Graduate School for Foreign Students at the University of Copenhagen in 1963.^[3] Bob was the founder of the Søren Kierkegaard Society of North America and editor of the Kierkegaard Newsletter and the 24-volume International Kierkegaard Commentary. His scholarship made lasting contributions to Kierkegaard studies and the broader field of philosophy.^[3]

Selected publications

Editorials

• History and system : Hegel's philosophy of history. Internet Archive. Albany : State University of New York Press. 1984. ISBN 978-0-87395-814-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) CS1 maint: publisher location (link)^[4][5][6]

Articles

• "What a Hegelian fool I was". History of European Ideas. 20 (1–3): 177–181. 1995. doi:10.1016/0191-6599(95)92939-R. ISSN 0191-6599.