Theory and practice in Kant and Kierkegaard / Ulrich Knappe.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Knappe, Ulrich.

Series:

Kierkegaard studies. Monograph series ; 9.

Kierkegaard studies. Monograph series ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Kierkegaard, Sren, 1813-1855.

Kierkegaard, Sren.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work investigates crucial aspects of Kant's epistemology and ethics in relation to Kierkegaard's thinking. The challenge is taken up of developing a systematic reconstruction of Kant's and Kierkegaard's position. Kant forms a matrix for the interpretation of Kierkegaard, and considerable space is devoted to the exposition of Kant at those various points at which contact with Kierkegaard's thought is to be demonstrated. The burden of the argument is that Kierkegaard in his account of the stages is much closer to Kant than the texts initially reveal. It is possible, then, to arrive at a pro

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. In Search of a Theory of Knowledge

Chapter 2. Kierkegaard's Explicit and Implicit Critiques of Kant's Theory of Knowledge

Chapter 3. Double-Mindedness or the Failure of an Orientation of the Will

Chapter 4. The Ethical Stage

Chapter 5. The Religious Conception in Purity of Heart and Postscript

Chapter 6. The Christian Stage of Existence and Its Departure from Kant

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Dissertation University of Cambridge.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-154) and index.

ISBN:

9786612195228

9781282195226

1282195220

9783110200904

3110200902

OCLC:

191926263