The Kierkegaardian Mind

Author : Adam Buben,Eleanor Helms,Patrick Stokes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429582028

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The Kierkegaardian Mind by Adam Buben,Eleanor Helms,Patrick Stokes Pdf

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) remains one of the most enigmatic, captivating, and elusive thinkers in the history of European thought. The Kierkegaardian Mind provides a comprehensive survey of his work, not only placing it in its historical context but also exploring its contemporary significance. Comprising thirty-eight chapters by a team of international contributors, this handbook is divided into eight parts covering the following themes: Methodology Ethics Aesthetics Philosophy of Religion and Theology Philosophy of Mind Anthropology Epistemology Politics. Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy, Kierkegaard’s work is central to the study of political philosophy, literature, existentialist thought, and theology.

Author : James Daniel Collins
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400853632

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The Mind of Kierkegaard by James Daniel Collins Pdf

This introductory overview of Kierkegaard's writings summarizes their central arguments and places them in their historical context. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : James Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:987238949

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The mind of Kierkegaard by James Collins Pdf

Author : Elmer H. Duncan
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781619708143

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Søren Kierkegaard by Elmer H. Duncan Pdf

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), little known or read outside of Denmark in his own day, has come to be widely appreciated for his affirmation of the Christian faith and his critique of the human condition. He is responsible for one of the major currents of twentieth-century thought, existentialism, which emphasizes the priority of existence over essence. Christian existentialism appropriated his insights for theology and ethics, stressing human experience, freedom, and the commitment of faith. Elements of his approach are found in Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Emil Brunner, Rudolf Bultmann, Reinhold Niehuhr, and Karl Rahner. Kierkegaard tried to clarify for his contemporaries the nature of Christianity, stressing that no philosophical system could explain the human condition. He emphasized the subjectivity of truth and could not refrain from attacking the cold formality and indifference of the state church of his day. In this book, Dr. Duncan guides the reader critically and skillfully through Kierkegaard's life and works. Book jacket.

Author : Jeffrey Hanson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253025029

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Kierkegaard and the Life of Faith by Jeffrey Hanson Pdf

“A thorough, considered, and provocative treatment of what justifiably remains Kierkegaard’s most famous book.” —Marginalia Review of Books Soren Kierkegaard’s masterful work Fear and Trembling interrogates the story of Abraham and Isaac, finding there one of the most profound and critical dilemmas in all of religious philosophy. While several commentaries and critical editions exist, Jeffrey Hanson offers a distinctive approach to this crucial text. Hanson gives equal weight to all three of Kierkegaard’s “problems,” dealing with Fear and Trembling as part of the entire corpus of Kierkegaard’s thought and putting all parts into relation with each other. Additionally, he offers a distinctive analysis of the Abraham story and other biblical texts, giving particular attention to questions of poetics, language, and philosophy, especially as each relates to the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious. Presented in a thoughtful and fresh manner, Hanson’s claims are original and edifying. This new reading of Kierkegaard will stimulate fruitful dialogue on well-traveled philosophical ground.

Author : Stuart Dalton
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781666725728

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How to Misunderstand Kierkegaard by Stuart Dalton Pdf

This book is an attempt to write about Kierkegaard's philosophy in the style of Kierkegaard's philosophy: energetic, playful, free spirited, surprising, and joyous. It is a deliberately crumby book in the sense that it seeks out the fragments, scraps, and crumbs of philosophical arguments that are generally ignored or swept away, like so much rubbish, but that are actually the most interesting parts of the meal. The Anti-Assistant-Professor Method that this book follows adopts Kierkegaard's many excellent jokes about assistant professors as a guide to how not to write about Kierkegaard's philosophy; specifically: - Don't cease to be human. - Don't be a parasite, merely feeding off other people's creations and never creating anything new. - Don't reduce or simplify or systematize Kierkegaard's ideas in order to make life easier for everyone (because that was never the point). - Don't kill Kierkegaard's philosophy by lecturing on it, thereby turning it into a collection of dead ideas for nonhumans rather than subjective truths that need to be lived. Following these guidelines, the book attempts to extend and amplify some of Kierkegaard's most important ideas in a way that combats the persistent problem of nihilism--a disease that even Kierkegaard succumbed to at the end of his life.

Author : Joseph Westfall
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110200973

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The Kierkegaardian Author by Joseph Westfall Pdf

This study engages in a detailed examination of Kierkegaard’s works of literary and dramatic criticism, including those works directed at interpreting Kierkegaard’s own authorship, with a specific concern for both what Kierkegaard and Kierkegaard’s anonyms and pseudonyms write about the nature and practice of authorship, as well as how the Kierkegaardian authors practice authorship themselves. Moving through five chapters, each devoted to one or more works of Kierkegaard’s criticism, the study develops a new approach to reading Kierkegaard – a new Kierkegaardian hermeneutic – that begins always with the character of the author. This new approach avoids the challenges of critics of biographical criticism, such as Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, by positing the author always as a work of fiction him- or herself, the creation of an unknown and ever anonymous “author of the author”.

Author : Jeffrey Hanson,Sharon Krishek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108835374

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Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death by Jeffrey Hanson,Sharon Krishek Pdf

Presents new approaches to one of Kierkegaard's most important texts, shedding light on themes such as selfhood, despair, and sin.

Author : Roe Fremstedal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781316513767

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Kierkegaard on Self, Ethics, and Religion by Roe Fremstedal Pdf

A new perspective on Kierkegaard and his importance for historical and contemporary debates on self, ethics and religion.

Author : Ryan S. Kemp,Walter Wietzke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781316512555

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Kierkegaard's Either/Or by Ryan S. Kemp,Walter Wietzke Pdf

This collection of essays strikes new ground in our understanding of Kierkegaard's Either/Or and his authorship as a whole.

Author : Johann-Christian Põder
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000878233

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Kierkegaard and Bioethics by Johann-Christian Põder Pdf

This book explores Kierkegaard’s significance for bioethics and discusses how Kierkegaard’s existential thinking can enrich and advance current bioethical debates. A bioethics inspired by Kierkegaard is not focused primarily on ethical codes, principles, or cases, but on the existential 'how' of our medical situation. Such a perspective focuses on the formative ethical experiences that an individual can have in relation to oneself and others when dealing with medical decisions, interventions, and information. The chapters in this volume explore questions like: What happens when medicine and bioethics meet Kierkegaard? How might Kierkegaard’s writings and thoughts contribute to contemporary issues in medicine? Do we need an existential turn in bioethics? They offer theoretical reflections on how Kierkegaard’s existential thinking might contribute to bioethics and apply Kierkegaardian concepts to debates on health and disease, predictive medicine and enhancement, mental illness and trauma, COVID-19, and gender identity. Kierkegaard and Bioethics will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Kierkegaard, bioethics, moral philosophy, existential ethics, religious ethics, and the medical humanities.

Author : John Lippitt
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748694440

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Narrative, Identity and the Kierkegaardian Self by John Lippitt Pdf

For the first time, this collection brings together figures in both contemporary philosophy and Kierkegaard studies to explore pressing issues in the philosophy of personal identity and moral psychology.

Author : John Lippitt
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474404778

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Narrative, Identity and the Kierkegaardian Self by John Lippitt Pdf

Is each of us the main character in a story we tell about ourselves, or is this narrative understanding of selfhood misguided and possibly harmful? Are selves and persons the same thing? And what does the possibility of sudden death mean for our ability to understand the narrative of ourselves? These questions have been much discussed both in recent philosophy and by scholars grappling with the work of the enigmatic 19th-century thinker S,Kierkegaard. For the first time, this collection brings together figures in both contemporary philosophy and Kierkegaard studies to explore pressing issues in the philosophy of personal identity and moral psychology. It serves both to advance important ongoing discussions of selfhood and to explore the light that, 200 years after his birth, Kierkegaard is still able to shed on contemporary problems.

Author : Clare Carlisle
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780241283592

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Philosopher of the Heart by Clare Carlisle Pdf

Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement 'This lucid and riveting new biography at once rescuses Kierkegaard from the scholars and shows why he is such an intriguing and useful figure' Observer Søren Kierkegaard, one of the most passionate and challenging of modern philosophers, is now celebrated as the father of existentialism - yet his contemporaries described him as a philosopher of the heart. Over about a decade in the 1840s and 1850s, writings poured from his pen analysing love and suffering, courage and anxiety, religious longing and defiance, and forging a new philosophical style rooted in the inward drama of being human. As Christianity seemed to sleepwalk through a changing world, Kierkegaard dazzlingly revealed its spiritual power while exposing the poverty of official religion. His restless creativity was spurred on by his own failures: his relationship with the young woman whom he promised to marry, then left to devote himself to writing, haunted him throughout his life. Though tormented by the pressures of celebrity, he deliberately lived amidst the crowds in Copenhagen, known by everyone but, he felt, understood by no one. When he collapsed exhausted at the age of 42, he was still pursuing the question of existence: how to be a human being in this world? Clare Carlisle's innovative and moving biography writes Kierkegaard's remarkable life as far as possible from his own perspective, conveying what it was like to be this Socrates of Christendom - as he put it, living life forwards yet only understanding it backwards.

Author : Clifford Williams
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498274401

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The Divided Soul by Clifford Williams Pdf

SOren Kierkegaard's Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing is an astute analysis of inner dividedness. In this striking little book, Kierkegaard gently yet incisively specifies the precise forms it takes. Like many of SOren Kierkegaard's books, however, Purity of Heart contains a good deal of formidable prose. The aim of The Divided Soul: A Kierkegaardian Exploration is to make Kierkegaard's scrutiny of our inner terrain in Purity of Heart accessible and inviting. With clear, direct prose, Clifford Williams lays bare Kierkegaard's discerning descriptions of the tension between a desire for goodness and resistance to goodness. Williams then reflects on themes arising from Kierkegaard's conception of faith.