Karen L. Carr
Professor Karen L. Carr
Philosophical work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental
Main interests	nihilism,alethiology

Karen Leslie Carr is an American scholar and McNaughton Rosebush Professor of Liberal Studies and Professor of Religious Studies atLawrence University.^[1]She is known for her works onnihilism andphilosophy of religion.^[2][3][4]

• The Banalization of Nihilism: Twentieth-Century Responses to Meaninglessness, SUNY Press, 1992
• The Sense Of Antirationalism: The Religious Thought Of Zhuangzi And Kierkegaard, withPhilip J. Ivanhoe, CreateSpace, 2010
• The birth, baptism, and banalization ... 1988, c. 1989

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