Art And Praise In Kierkegaard S Works Of Love

Author : Richard McCombs
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781666936063

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Art and Praise in Kierkegaard’s Works of Love by Richard McCombs Pdf

Since art is essential to the love of one’s neighbor as oneself and to love’s chief goal of building up one another, we cannot understand love without also understanding its art. Observing that praise is ubiquitous in Søren Kierkegaard’s writings, Richard McCombs interprets Kierkegaard’s Works of Love as a eulogy of love’s arts of forgiveness, peace-making, and building up one’s neighbor in maturity and charity. Kierkegaard stresses love's ability to achieve results, calling love irresistible and almost magical in overcoming obstacles to its purposes; living the life of faith and love involves skillful attention to the specificity of the episodes in an individual’s life, and the creative imagining of new ways of enacting these virtues. McCombs argues that Kierkegaard’s ideas about the art of love reveal limits or exceptions to his individualism and to his anti-consequentialism in ethics. Art and Praise in Kierkegaard’s Works of Love explores Kierkegaard’s distinct praises of love through texts like Works of Love, The Brothers Karamazov, and Middlemarch to illustrate, complement, and sometimes correct Kierkegaard’s profound account of love’s art and wisdom, suggesting ways that the art of praise bears on other questions in aesthetics, ethics, and religion.

Author : Richard McCombs
Publisher : New Kierkegaard Research
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1666936057

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Art and Praise in Kierkegaard's Works of Love by Richard McCombs Pdf

With a focus on Works of Love, this book argues that for Kierkegaard the living of the life of faith and love is a kind of art, involving skillful attention to the specificity of the episodes in an individual's life, and the creative imagining of new ways of enacting these virtues.

Author : Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400847013

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Kierkegaard's Writings, XVI, Volume 16 by Søren Kierkegaard Pdf

The various kinds and conditions of love are a common theme for Kierkegaard, beginning with his early Either/Or, through "The Diary of the Seducer" and Judge William's eulogy on married love, to his last work, on the changelessness of God's love. Works of Love, the midpoint in the series, is also the monumental high point, because of its penetrating, illuminating analysis of the forms and sources of love. Love as feeling and mood is distinguished from works of love, love of the lovable from love of the unlovely, preferential love from love as the royal law, love as mutual egotism from triangular love, and erotic love from self-giving love. This work is marked by Kierkegaard's Socratic awareness of the reader, both as the center of awakened understanding and as the initiator of action. Written to be read aloud, the book conveys a keenness of thought and an insightful, poetic imagination that make such an attentive approach richly rewarding. Works of Love not only serves as an excellent place to begin exploring the writings of Kierkegaard, but also rewards many rereadings.

Author : M. Jamie Ferreira
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190284756

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Love's Grateful Striving by M. Jamie Ferreira Pdf

Soren Kierkegaard's Works of Love (1847), a series of deliberations on the commandment to love one's neighbor, has often been condemned by critics. Here, Ferreira seeks to rehabilitate Works of Love as one of Kierkegaard's most important works. He shows that Kierkegaard's deliberations on love are highly relevant to some important themes in contemporary ethics, including impartiality, duty, equality, mutuality, reciprocity, self-love, sympathy, and sacrifice. Ferreira also argues that Works of Love bears on issues peculiar to a religious ethic, such as the role of God as "middle term," and the possibility of preserving the aesthetic dimensions of love in a religious ethic of relation.

Author : Robert L. Perkins
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0865546851

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Works of Love by Robert L. Perkins Pdf

"To claim that Works of Love is an important philosophical essay is to assume hazardous burden of proof. The book's title is an allusion to the Bible's injunction that we should love our neighbor as we love ourselves, a far cry, far instance, from Diotoma's ladder of erotic desire up which we climb from the love of bodies until we catch a vision of that "single sea of beauty," beauty itself (Plato, Symposium). This contrast, given that some of some of our neighbors may not be particularly likable or one may even be a determined enemy, suggests immediately to some that a book with such an obviously religious title must be excessively moralistic and, at best, full of sermon helps for the harried clergy or, at worst, laden with rules for the unlearned laity. A casual perusal of a few paragraphs, however, shows these "put-down" views of the book to be unfounded"--

Author : Steven M. Emmanuel,William McDonald,William David McDonald,Jon Bartley Stewart
Publisher : PHP研究所
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy, Danish
ISBN : 1472417496

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Kierkegaard's Concepts by Steven M. Emmanuel,William McDonald,William David McDonald,Jon Bartley Stewart Pdf

Kierkegaard's Concepts is a comprehensive, multi-volume survey of the key concepts and categories that inform Kierkegaard's writings. Each article is a substantial, original piece of scholarship, which discusses the etymology and lexical meaning of the relevant Danish term, traces the development of the concept over the course of the authorship, and explains how it functions in the wider context of Kierkegaard's thought. Concepts have been selected on the basis of their importance for Kierkegaard's contributions to philosophy, theology, the social sciences, literature and aesthetics, thereby making this volume an ideal reference work for students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines.

Author : M. Jamie Ferreira
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195130256

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Love's Grateful Striving by M. Jamie Ferreira Pdf

In an attempt to rehabilitate 'Works of Love' as one of Kierkegaard's most important works, this text shows that Kierkegaard's deliberations on love are relevant to many themes in contemporary ethics, including duty, equality and mutuality.

Author : Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Port Washington : Kennikat Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015006243680

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Works of Love by Søren Kierkegaard Pdf

Author : J. Aaron Simmons,Jeffrey Hanson,Wojciech Kaftanski
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781666942330

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Kierkegaardian Phenomenologies by J. Aaron Simmons,Jeffrey Hanson,Wojciech Kaftanski Pdf

Kierkegaardian Phenomenologies, edited by J. Aaron Simmons, Jeffrey Hanson, and Wojciech Kaftanski, offers a substantive, diverse, and timely consideration of phenomenological engagements within the thought of Søren Kierkegaard. Featuring original essays from a distinguished collection of established and emerging global scholars representing different schools of thought, this volume explains how the interest in a phenomenological reading of Kierkegaard is not only vital, but continues to grow in importance by cultivating new readers and inviting old readers to revisit their views. Divided into four parts—"Phenomenological Explorations", "On Hearing and Seeing", "Rethinking Faith and Despair", and "Kierkegaard and New Phenomenology"—this collection not only reflects the current state of scholarly conversations in both Kierkegaardian studies and phenomenological research, but also envisions new directions in which they should go, exploring ways that a Kierkegaardian approach to phenomenology might help us to re-envision Kierkegaard scholarship and re-enliven phenomenological philosophy.

Author : Lee C. Barrett
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781666914931

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Kierkegaard on God’s Will and Human Freedom by Lee C. Barrett Pdf

Søren Kierkegaard’s authorship exhibits two different trajectories concerning the relation of responsible human agency to sovereign divine agency: one trajectory stresses free human striving, while the other trajectory emphasizes the dominance of divine agency. The first theme led to the view of Kierkegaard as the champion of autonomous existential “leaps,” while the second led to the construal of Kierkegaard as a devout Lutheran who trusted absolutely in God’s gracious governance. Lee C. Barrett argues that Kierkegaard, influenced by Kant’s critique of metaphysics, did not attempt to integrate human and divine agencies in any speculative theory. Instead, Kierkegaard deploys them to encourage different passions and dispositions that can be integrated in a coherent human life, making use of literary strategies to foster the different passions and dispositions that are associated with the themes of human responsibility and divine governance. Kierkegaard on God’s Will and Human Freedom: An Upbuilding Antinomy offers an incisive account of what makes Kierkegaard’s conception of theology as a matter of edification rather than speculation so distinctive and enduringly worthwhile.

Author : I. Dilman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230379565

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Love by I. Dilman Pdf

The book is concerned with questions about love: questions about its many forms, strands and aspects, and the relation in which they stand to each other. It is concerned with the way different aspects of sexual love conflict with each other, with the way self-regard and self-interest can corrupt love, and with spiritual love and its difficulties. It seeks the views of some writers who have suggested some distinctive solutions to the existential problems that love poses in the face of its obstacles: Plato, Proust, Sartre, Freud, D.H. Lawrence, Erich Fromm, C.S. Lewis, Kierkegaard, Simone Weil and Kahlil Gibran.

Author : George Pattison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134455188

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Kierkegaard's Upbuilding Discourses by George Pattison Pdf

George Pattison provides a reassessment of Kierkegaard's Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses and our reading of his work as a whole.

Author : Ronald Manheimer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780520338807

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Kierkegaard as Educator by Ronald Manheimer Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.

Author : Steven M. Emmanuel,William McDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351875059

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Volume 15, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Concepts by Steven M. Emmanuel,William McDonald Pdf

Kierkegaard’s Concepts is a comprehensive, multi-volume survey of the key concepts and categories that inform Kierkegaard’s writings. Each article is a substantial, original piece of scholarship, which discusses the etymology and lexical meaning of the relevant Danish term, traces the development of the concept over the course of the authorship, and explains how it functions in the wider context of Kierkegaard’s thought. Concepts have been selected on the basis of their importance for Kierkegaard’s contributions to philosophy, theology, the social sciences, literature and aesthetics, thereby making this volume an ideal reference work for students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines.

Author : Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106011690093

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Kierkegaard's Writings by Søren Kierkegaard Pdf