Kevin Hart

Kevin Hart, Jo Rae Wright University Distinguished Professor at Duke Divinity School and poet-scholar of theology, phenomenology, and literature, discusses contemplation and poetic attention. He links Augustine, Husserl, Coleridge, and modern poets to a hermeneutic of slow, contemplative reading. Conversations range from phenomenology as prayerful reduction to poems as tiny temples that keep thinking alive.

Kevin Hart, Jo Rae Wright University Distinguished Professor at Duke Divinity School and author of Lands of Likeness, explores a hermeneutic of contemplation rooted in theology, poetry, and philosophy. He traces contemplative reading from Augustine and the Romantics to Husserl and modern poets. The conversation highlights contemplation versus suspicion, phenomenology, poetic attention, and the discipline of slow, attentive reading.