Kierkegaard's Concluding unscientific postscript : a critical guide
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Kierkegaard's Concluding unscientific postscript : a critical guide
（Cambridge critical guides）
Cambridge University Press, 2012, c2010
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"First published 2010. First paperback edition 2012"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-254) and index
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Description
Soren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript has provoked a lively variety of divergent interpretations for a century and a half. It has been both celebrated and condemned as the chief inspiration for twentieth-century existential thought, as a subversive parody of philosophical argument, as a critique of mass society, as a forerunner of phenomenology and of postmodern relativism, and as an appeal for a renewal of religious commitment. These 2010 essays written by international Kierkegaard scholars offer a plurality of critical approaches to this fundamental text of existential philosophy. They cover hotly debated topics such as the tension between the Socratic-philosophical and the Christian-religious; the identity and personality of Kierkegaard's pseudonym 'Johannes Climacus'; his conceptions of paradoxical faith and of passionate understanding; his relation to his contemporaries and to some of his more distant predecessors; and, last but not least, his pertinence to our present-day concerns.
Table of Contents
- Introduction Rick Anthony Furtak
- 1. The 'Socratic secret': the postscript to the Philosophical Crumbs M. Jamie Ferreira
- 2. Kierkegaard's Socratic pseudonym: a profile of Johannes Climacus Paul Muench
- 3. Johannes Climacus' revocation Alastair Hannay
- 4. From the garden of the dead: Johannes Climacus on religious and irreligious inwardness Edward F. Mooney
- 5. The Kierkegaardian ideal of 'essential knowing' and the scandal of modern philosophy Rick Anthony Furtak
- 6. Lessing and Socrates in Kierkegaard's Postscript Jacob Howland
- 7. Climacus on subjectivity and the system Merold Westphal
- 8. Humor and irony in the Postscript John Lippitt
- 9. Climacus on the task of becoming a Christian Clare Carlisle
- 10. The epistemology of the Postscript M. G. Piety
- 11. Faith and reason in Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript C. Stephen Evans
- 12. Making Christianity difficult: the 'existentialist theology' of Kierkegaard's Postscript David R. Law
- Bibliography
- Index.
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