A Confusion of the Spheres

A Confusion of the Spheres
Author: Genia Sch?nbaumsfeld
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 700
Release: 2010-03-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191614831

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Cursory allusions to the relation between Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein are common in philosophical literature, but there has been little in the way of serious and comprehensive commentary on the relationship of their ideas. Genia Sch?nbaumsfeld closes this gap and offers new readings of Kierkegaard's and Wittgenstein's conceptions of philosophy and religious belief. Chapter one documents Kierkegaard's influence on Wittgenstein, while chapters two and three provide trenchant criticisms of two prominent attempts to compare the two thinkers, those by D. Z. Phillips and James Conant. In chapter four, Sch?nbaumsfeld develops Kierkegaard's and Wittgenstein's concerted criticisms of certain standard conceptions of religious belief, and defends their own positive conception against the common charges of 'irrationalism' and 'fideism'. As well as contributing to contemporary debate about how to read Kierkegaard's and Wittgenstein's work, A Confusion of the Spheres addresses issues which not only concern scholars of Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard, but anyone interested in the philosophy of religion, or the ethical aspects of philosophical practice as such.

Kierkegaard's Influence on Social-political Thought

Kierkegaard's Influence on Social-political Thought
Author: Jon Bartley Stewart
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2011
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781409434917

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Kierkegaard has been traditionally characterized as a Christian writer who placed supreme importance on the inward religious life of each individual believer. His radical view seemed to many to undermine any meaningful conception of the community, society or the state. In recent years, however, scholars have begun to correct this image of Kierkegaard as an apolitical thinker. The present volume attempts to document the use of Kierkegaard by later thinkers in the context of social-political thought. It shows how his ideas have been employed by very different kinds of writers and activists with very different political goals and agendas. Many of the articles show that, although Kierkegaard has been criticized for his reactionary views on some social and political questions, he has been appropriated as a source of insight and inspiration by a number of later thinkers with very progressive, indeed, visionary political views.

Kierkegaard's Influence on Theology: Anglophone and Scandinavian Protestant theology

Kierkegaard's Influence on Theology: Anglophone and Scandinavian Protestant theology
Author: Jon Bartley Stewart
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2012
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781409444794

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Tome II is dedicated to tracing Kierkegaard's influence in Anglophone and Scandinavian Protestant religious thought. In Britain, before World War I, the few literati who were familiar with his work tended to assimilate Kierkegaard to the heroic individualism of Ibsen and Nietzsche. In the United States knowledge of Kierkegaard was introduced by Scandinavian immigrants who brought with them a picture of the Dane as much more sympathetic to traditional Christianity. The interpretation of Kierkegaard in Britain and America during the early and mid-twentieth century generally reflected the sensibilities of the particular theological interpreter. Anglican theologians tended to find Kierkegaard to be one-sided in his critique of reason and culture, while theologians hailing from the Reformed tradition often saw him as an insightful harbinger of neo-orthodoxy. The second part of Tome II is dedicated to the Kierkegaard reception in Scandinavian theology, featuring articles on Norwegian and Swedish theologians influenced by Kierkegaard.

Kierkegaard Within Your Grasp

Kierkegaard Within Your Grasp
Author: Shelley O'Hara
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2007-07-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0544187083

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Philosophy's greatest luminaries brought down to earth. Kierkegaard Within Your Grasp offers fast, easy access to the life and works of the legendary architect of existentialism. In fewer than 100 pages, you'll get all the essentials in everyday language. A short biographical sketch sets the scene, followed by chapters illuminating Kierkegaard's overall philosophy and his most important writings. For students and lifelong learners seeking an entry point into this remarkably prolific thinker's social commentary, Kierkegaard Within Your Grasp is the springboard to enriched understanding. Inside you'll find all the vital details, including: Life * Family and upbringing * Religion-from influence to critique * The Copenhagen intellectual scene Philosophy * Overview of key works, themes, and impact * Perspectives on faith, individualism, literature, and psychology * Individual chapters on Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, Philosophical Fragments, The Concept of Dread, and Concluding Unscientific Postscript Additional Resources * Tracking down Kierkegaard's major works * Collections, biographies, and critical writings * Kierkegaard on the Internet Get a grip-Kierkegaard is within your grasp!

The Portable Kierkegaard

The Portable Kierkegaard
Author: Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2009-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 189740607X

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The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard

The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 281
Release: 1999-09-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0940322137

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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.

Kierkegaard and the Question Concerning Technology

Kierkegaard and the Question Concerning Technology
Author: Christopher B. Barnett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2019-08-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1628926694

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Over the last several decades, technology has emerged as an important area of interest for both philosophers and theologians. Yet, despite his status as one of modernity's seminal thinkers, Søren Kierkegaard is not often seen as one who contributed to the field. Kierkegaard and the Question Concerning Technology argues otherwise. Christopher B. Barnett shows that many of Kierkegaard's criticisms of "the present age" relate to the increasing dominance of technology in the West, and he puts Kierkegaard's thought in conversation with subsequent thinkers who grappled with technological issues, from Martin Heidegger to Thomas Merton. Barnett shows that Kierkegaard's writing, with its marked emphases on personal "upbuilding," stands as a place where deeper, non-technical modes of thinking are both commended and nurtured. In doing so, Barnett presents a Kierkegaard who remains relevant--perhaps all too relevant--in today's digital age.

Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity

Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity
Author: Martin Beck Matuštík
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1995-10-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780253209672

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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.

The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard

The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard
Author: John Lippitt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre:
ISBN: 9780191750489

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'The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard' brings together an outstanding selection of contemporary specialists and uniquely combines work on the background and context of Kierkegaard's writings, exposition of his key ideas, and a survey of his influence and heritage.

Volume 11, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Influence on Philosophy

Volume 11, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Influence on Philosophy
Author: Jon Stewart
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1351875353

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Kierkegaard's relation to the field of philosophy is a particularly complex and disputed one. He rejected the model of philosophical inquiry that was mainstream in his day and was careful to have his pseudonymous authors repeatedly disassociate themselves from philosophy. But although it seems clear that Kierkegaard never regarded himself as a philosopher, there can be no doubt that his writings contain philosophical ideas and insights and have been profoundly influential in a number of different philosophical traditions. The present volume documents these different traditions of the philosophical reception of Kierkegaard's thought and the articles featured demonstrate the vast reach of Kierkegaard's writings in philosophical contexts that were often quite different from his own. Tome I is dedicated to exploring the reception of Kierkegaard in Germanophone and Scandinavian philosophy. Kierkegaard has been a major influence for such different philosophical projects as phenomenology, hermeneutics, dialogical thinking, critical theory, Marxism, logical positivism and ordinary language philosophy. Similarly in Denmark and Norway Kierkegaard's writings have been more or less constantly discussed by important philosophers, despite the later dominance of analytic philosophy in these countries. The present tome features articles on the leading Germanophone and Scandinavian philosophers influenced by Kierkegaard's thought.