David Kyuman Kim is Director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Connecticut College.

Kim takes his readers on philosophical and political journeys that are as wonderful for their careful mode of engagement as they are for the highly provocative insights they achieve. He asks one of the crucial questions of our day: How might people cultivate a sense of urgency for the manifold work of progressive politics in a time when the 'banality of freedom' is widespread? In a manner that is at once counter-intuitive and compelling, Kim argues that melancholy can be a condition for the vitality of freedom and the intransigence of hope. Kim's voice is itself powerful evidence for the synthesis of urgency and self-reflection at the heart of his thinking.

• 1. Melancholic Freedom ; 2. Love of the Good among Ruins ; 3. Through a Self Darkly ; 4. The Agency that Difference Makes ; 5. A World Not Well Lost ; 6. Agency as a Vocation

David Kyuman Kim is Director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Connecticut College.

Kim takes his readers on philosophical and political journeys that are as wonderful for their careful mode of engagement as they are for the highly provocative insights they achieve. He asks one of the crucial questions of our day: How might people cultivate a sense of urgency for the manifold work of progressive politics in a time when the 'banality of freedom' is widespread? In a manner that is at once counter-intuitive and compelling, Kim argues that melancholy can be a condition for the vitality of freedom and the intransigence of hope. Kim's voice is itself powerful evidence for the synthesis of urgency and self-reflection at the heart of his thinking.

• 1. Melancholic Freedom ; 2. Love of the Good among Ruins ; 3. Through a Self Darkly ; 4. The Agency that Difference Makes ; 5. A World Not Well Lost ; 6. Agency as a Vocation

David Kyuman Kim is Director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Connecticut College.

Kim takes his readers on philosophical and political journeys that are as wonderful for their careful mode of engagement as they are for the highly provocative insights they achieve. He asks one of the crucial questions of our day: How might people cultivate a sense of urgency for the manifold work of progressive politics in a time when the 'banality of freedom' is widespread? In a manner that is at once counter-intuitive and compelling, Kim argues that melancholy can be a condition for the vitality of freedom and the intransigence of hope. Kim's voice is itself powerful evidence for the synthesis of urgency and self-reflection at the heart of his thinking.

• 1. Melancholic Freedom ; 2. Love of the Good among Ruins ; 3. Through a Self Darkly ; 4. The Agency that Difference Makes ; 5. A World Not Well Lost ; 6. Agency as a Vocation