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The toils of understanding : an essay on The present age / by Husain Sarkar.
LIBRA PT8142.L5 T653 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sarkar, Husain.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855. Literair anmeldelse--Del 3.
- Kierkegaard, Søren.
- Physical Description:
- x, 187 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- Nine years before his death, Soren Aabye Kierkegaard published the The Present Age (1846). It was his only and the major tract in moral and political philosophy. In The Present Age Kierkegaard treated his age unkindly -- no commentary on our own age could have been more uncomfortably accurate. Kierkegaard said his age was given to much talk and reflection, cleverness and calculation, but to publicity, an age of the public and the press, filled with envy and resentment. "I wonder", he said, "if there is a person anymore who ever makes just one big stupid blunder". Was there no hope?
- In The Toils of Understanding, Husain Sarkar analyzes not only Kierkegaard's answer to that question but also offers a new theory of understanding which provides a framework in which to do so. Sarkar's theory proposes to place Kierkegaard's account of how an individual is destroyed: what forms of corruption society can wreak on him; what, if anything, society can do to save him; and what, if anything, he can do to save society; and finally, how what really saves the individual lies in the individual, for his being saved could not depend on the work of others -- it would not be a secondhand gift from God.
- The Toils of Understanding is wide- ranging. The central theme is that understanding is essential if the individual and society are to be saved. On the way to various conclusions, The Toils of Understanding argues with a host of interpreters Kiekegaard. The result is keen study, not only of the Present Age, but also of several issues central to Kierkegaard and central to contemporary philosophy.
- Notes:
- "The present age was originally ... part III of a review of Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvard's ... last novel, Two ages, published on 30 October 1845"--P.[ix].
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0865546630
- OCLC:
- 43840840
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