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Sam Keen (born 1931)[1] is an American author, professor, and philosopher who is best known for his exploration of questions regarding love, life, wonder, religion, and being a male in contemporary society. He co-produced Faces of the Enemy, an award-winning PBS documentary; was the subject of a Bill Moyers' television special in the early 1990s; and for 20 years served as a contributing editor at Psychology Today magazine.[2] He is also featured in the 2003 documentary Flight from Death.

Keen completed his undergraduate studies at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania,[3] and later completed graduate degrees at Harvard University and Princeton University.[2]

Keen is married to Patricia de Jong, who is a former senior minister of First Congregational Church of Berkeley, United Church of Christ, in Berkeley, California.[4]

Books

In print

• Prodigal Father, Wayward Son (2015)
• In the Absence of God: Dwelling in the Presence of the Sacred (2010)
• Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds (Chronicle Books, 2007)
• Learning to Fly: Reflections on Fear, Trust, and the Joy of Letting Go (1999)
• To Love and Be Loved (Bantam, 1997)
• Hymns to an Unknown God (Bantam, 1994)
• Inward Bound: Exploring the Geography of Your Emotions (Bantam, 1992)
• Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man (Bantam, 1991)
• Your Mythic Journey (Tarcher, 1990)
• Faces of the Enemy. Reflections of the Hostile Imagination. (Harper and Row, San Francisco 1986)

Out of print

• The Passionate Life (Harper and Row)
• Beginnings Without End (Harper and Row, 1975)
• To a Dancing God (Harper and Row, 1970)
• Apology for Wonder (Harper and Row, 1969)
• Gabriel Marcel (John Knox Press, 1967)

See also

• American philosophy
• List of American philosophers
• Mythopoeic thought

References

External links

Wikiquote has quotations related to Sam Keen.

• Official site
• Famous Quotes By Sam Keen
• Sam Keen MP3 audio - from Shift in Action, sponsored by Institute of Noetic Sciences
• Ancients were ahead of their time, The Sydney Morning Herald, Paul Sheehan, October 16, 2006.
• Flight From Death on Hulu

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