On Søren Kierkegaard: Dialogue, Polemics, Lost Intimacy, and TimeTracing a path through Kierkegaard's writings, this book brings the reader into contact with various texts and purposes of this remarkable 19th century Danish writer and thinker. It sketches Kierkegaard's unfolding polyphonic humanistic self before embarking on a thematic tour of five of Kierkegaard's major texts. Tracing a path through Kierkegaard's writings, this book brings the reader into close contact with various texts and purposes of this remarkable 19th century Danish writer and thinker. Kierkegaard writes in a number of voices and registers of concern, sometimes as a sharp observer and critic of Danish culture, at times as a moral psychologist and sometimes Kierkegaard's main concern is the evocation of a religious way of life. These multi fold concerns are close to contemporary struggles to understand self and self-development, the interweaving of spiritual concerns with the fabric of everyday life, the fragility of self and the openness of the human to artistic, moral, and religious modes of expression, in moments of insight and conflict. In developing these themes, Mooney sketches what he calls Kierkegaard's unfolding polyphonic humanistic self before embarking on a thematic tour of five of Kierkegaard's major texts, "Either/Or through Discourses" conveying throughout, a sympathy with much of Kierkegaard's accomplishments |
Contents
A Socrates in Christendom | 1 |
The Gadfly in Copenhagen | 3 |
Seduction and Definition | 21 |
Copyright | |
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On Søren Kierkegaard: Dialogue, Polemics, Lost Intimacy, and Time Edward F. Mooney Limited preview - 2007 |
On Søren Kierkegaard: Dialogue, Polemics, Lost Intimacy, and Time Edward F. Mooney Limited preview - 2017 |
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Abraham academic aesthetic Alastair Hannay allure answer artistry attunement become Cambridge Cavell Chapter Christ Christian claim Climacus Concept of Anxiety contrast convictions Copenhagen critique cultural death despair dialectical dialogue Diotima doctrine early discourses Either/Or ethical exemplar existential Faust Fear and Trembling freedom George Pattison gives glance Hegel hermeneutics hope human imagination indirect communication inquiry interpretation interrogation intimate irony Isaac Johannes de silentio Judge Wilhelm Kierkegaard Kierkegaardian knight of faith knowledge living lyric MacIntyre means metaphysics mood moral Moriah objective one's oneself passion pathos perhaps person philosophical Plato poetic poetry polemic possibility Postscript prayer Princeton University Press pseudonyms reader reason religious repetition response revocation sense Sickness Unto Death silence Socrates Søren Kierkegaard soul speak spirit stance Stanley Cavell story subjectivity sublime task telling theme There's things Tivoli trans truth virtue wonder words worship writing