Kierkegaard and death / edited by Patrick Stokes and Adam Buben.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Stokes, Patrick, 1978-
• Buben, Adam, 1977-

Series:

• Indiana series in the philosophy of religion.
• Indiana series in the philosophy of religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855--Congresses.
• Death--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 b

Contents:

• Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1.Knights and Knaves of the Living Dead; 2.To Die and Yet Not Die: Kierkegaard's Theophany of Death; 3.Christian Hate: Death, Dying, and Reasonin Pascal and Kierkegaard; 4.Suicide and Despair; 5.Thinking Death into Every Moment; 6.Death and Ethics in Kierkegaard's Postscript; 7.The Intimate Agency of Death; 8.A Critical Perspective on Kierkegaard's "At a Graveside"; 9.Life-Narrative and Death as the End of Freedom; 10.Heidegger and Kierkegaard on Death; 11.Kierkegaard, Levinas, Derrida: The Death of the Other
• 12.Derrida, Judge William, and Death13.The Soft Weeping of Desire's Loss:; 14.Duties to the Dead? Earnest Imagination and Remembrance; 15.Kierkegaard's Understanding of the Afterlife; Contributors; Index

Notes:

• Proceedings of a conference held in Dec. 2007 at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 1-280-12430-X
• 9786613528162
• 0-253-00534-5

OCLC:

769101870