Kierkegaard, religion, and the nineteenth-century crisis of culture / George Pattison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pattison, George, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.

Kierkegaard, Søren.

Christianity and culture--History--19th century.

Christianity and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 257 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Kierkegaard, Religion & the Nineteenth-Century Crisis of Culture

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kierkegaard is often viewed in the history of ideas solely within the academic traditions of philosophy and theology. The secondary literature generally ignores the fact that he also took an active role in the public debate about the significance of the modern age that was taking shape in the flourishing feuilleton literature during the period of his authorship. Through a series of sharply focussed studies, George Pattison contextualises Kierkegaard's religious thought in relation to the debates about religion, culture and society carried on in the newspapers and journals read by the whole educated stratum of Danish society. Pattison brings Kierkegaard into relation to not only high art and literature but also to the ephemera of his contemporary culture. This has important implications for our understanding of Kierkegaard's view of the nature of religious communication in modern society.

Contents:

The sublime, the city and the present age

Kierkegaard and the world of the feuilletons

The present age: the age of the city

'Cosmopolitan faces'

Food for thought

A literary scandal

The reception of either/or

New Year's day

Kierkegaard and the nineteenth century (1) Manet

Kierkegaard and the nineteenth century (2) Dostoevsky

Learning to read the signs of the times.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-251) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12537-5

1-280-43392-2

0-511-17709-7

0-511-04226-4

0-511-15798-3

0-511-32989-X

0-511-48780-0

0-511-04521-2

OCLC:

475916690