On Søren Kierkegaard: Dialogue, Polemics, Lost Intimacy, and TimeTracing a path through Kierkegaard's writings, this book brings the reader into close contact with the texts and purposes of this remarkable 19th century Danish writer and thinker. Kierkegaard writes in a number of voices and registers: as a sharp observer and critic of Danish culture, or as a moral psychologist, and as a writer concerned to evoke the religious way of life of Socrates, Abraham, or a Christian exemplar. In developing these themes, Mooney sketches Kierkegaard's Socratic vocation, gives a close reading of several central texts, and traces 'The Ethical Sublime' as a recurrent theme. He unfolds an affirmative relationship between philosophy and theology and the potentialities for a religiousness that defies dogmatic creeds, secular chauvinisms, and restrictive philosophies. |
Contents
The Gadfly in Copenhagen | |
Seduction | |
Socrates Becomes | |
Lost Intimacy Words on | |
PART Two Love Ethics and Tremors in Time | |
A Seaward Look Renews Time | |
Perils in Polarity Crossing the AestheticEthical | |
Spectacular Diversions | |
Gifts in WorldRenewal Repetition is Requited | |
PART Three Plenitude Prayer and an Ethical Sublime | |
Possibilities Imparted The Artistry of Intimate | |
Humor Takes it Back Revocation Opens | |
Plenitude and Prayer Words Instill Silence | |
Bibliography | |
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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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