The Living Thoughts Of Kierkegaard

Author : Soren Kierkegaard
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 0940322137
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard written by Soren Kierkegaard and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from the Danish by Walter Lowrie, David Swenson, and Alexander Dru The Danish philosopher Kierkegaard is one of the master thinkers of the modern age, a defining influence on existentialism and on twentieth-century theology, and this brilliantly tailored selection from his vast and varied writings--made by the great English poet W.H Auden--is a perfect introduction to his work. Auden's inspired and incisive response to a thinker who had done much to shape his own beliefs is a fundamental reading of an author whose spirit remains as radical as ever more than 150 years after he wrote.

Author : Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard written by Søren Kierkegaard and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeffrey Hanson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253025028
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard and the Life of Faith written by Jeffrey Hanson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 : W. H. Auden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard written by W. H. Auden and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clare Carlisle
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374721696
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosopher of the Heart written by Clare Carlisle and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosopher of the Heart is the groundbreaking biography of renowned existentialist Søren Kierkegaard’s life and creativity, and a searching exploration of how to be a human being in the world. Søren Kierkegaard is one of the most passionate and challenging of all modern philosophers, and is often regarded as the founder of existentialism. Over about a decade in the 1840s and 1850s, writings poured from his pen pursuing the question of existence—how to be a human being in the world?—while exploring the possibilities of Christianity and confronting the failures of its institutional manifestation around him. Much of his creativity sprang from his relationship with the young woman whom he promised to marry, then left to devote himself to writing, a relationship which remained decisive for the rest of his life. He deliberately lived in the swim of human life in Copenhagen, but alone, and died exhausted in 1855 at the age of 42, bequeathing his remarkable writings to his erstwhile fiancée. Clare Carlisle’s innovative and moving biography writes Kierkegaard’s life as far as possible from his own perspective, to convey what it was like actually being this Socrates of Christendom—as he put it, living life forwards yet only understanding it backwards.

Author : Elmer H. Duncan
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1619708140
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Søren Kierkegaard written by Elmer H. Duncan and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Patrick Stokes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253005345
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard and Death written by Patrick Stokes and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This impressive [anthology] succeeds admirably at demonstrating how the Kierkegaardian corpus presents . . . a philosophy of finite existence” (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews). Few philosophers have devoted such sustained, almost obsessive attention to the topic of death as Søren Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard and Death brings together new work on Kierkegaard’s multifaceted discussions of death and provides a thorough guide to the development, in various texts and contexts, of Kierkegaard’s ideas concerning death. Essays by an international group of scholars take up essential topics such as dying to the world, living death, immortality, suicide, mortality and subjectivity, death and the meaning of life, remembrance of the dead, and the question of the afterlife. While bringing Kierkegaard’s philosophy of death into focus, this volume connects Kierkegaard with important debates in contemporary philosophy.

Author : Sylvia Walsh
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271041226
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Poetically written by Sylvia Walsh and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Beck Matuštík
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253209672
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity written by Martin Beck Matuštík and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995-10-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a diversity of themes, this collection still reflects consensus--Kierkegaard is to be taken seriously as a philosopher at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Author : Paul Cruysberghs
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789058673114
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immediacy and Reflection in Kierkegaard's Thought written by Paul Cruysberghs and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We live in a reflective age." That is Soren Kierkegaard's overall conclusion when evaluating the time he lives in. But his appraisal contains both approval and criticism. On the one hand reflection is a necessary category to deal with the dynamics and the qualities of the modern age, on the other hand it bears a great danger. It is Kierkegaard's firm conviction that reflection should always relate to a kind of immediacy that safeguards it from becoming hollow and detached from our existential reality. Throughout the voluminous and complex work of Kierkegaard, the notions of 'immediacy' and 'reflection' play a crucial role. They appear in such an early work as From the Papers of One Still Living as well as in the late Anti-Climacus writings, and indeed their significance or influence can be felt in all philosophical texts published in between. That is not to say that the meaning of the notions is unequivocal. After all, Kierkegaard not only uses the terms in very divergent contexts, but his own understanding of them appears to evolve quite strongly in the course of his oeuvre. Moreover, in spite of their clearly philosophical character, the two notions play an unmistakable role in Kierkegaard's understanding of religion. They appear frequently in the religious discourses indeed. In short, Kierkegaard's use of the notions of 'immediacy' and 'reflection' covers a broad array of meanings and interpretations. The dialectics of immediacy and reflection, of reflection killing immediacy and raising the question of the possibility of a new immediacy is the main theme of Immediacy and Reflection in Kierkegaard's Thought. The book contains contributions authored by a number of well known Kierkegaard scholars. Kierkegaard's theory of the 'existence spheres of life' provides a first viewpoint on the interplay of immediacy and reflection. Here the philosophical and pseudonymous writings are the main subject of research. If on the other hand one pays a closer look at the significance of a 'second immediacy' for a religious attitude to life, The religious discourses come into play when the possibility of a 'second immediacy' is taken into consideration. In conclusion the theme of immediacy and reflection is connected to some important trends in the modern and contemporary era. On the one hand it is linked to the philosophical influences Kierkegaard underwent (e.g. from Hegel); on the other hand Kierkegaard is confronted with later thinkers (Heidegger in particular).