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The paradoxical rationality of Søren Kierkegaard / Richard McCombs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCombs, Richard Phillip.
- Series:
- Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion
- Indiana series in the philosophy of religion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Faith and reason--Christianity.
- Faith and reason.
- Philosophical theology.
- Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.
- Kierkegaard, Søren.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Richard McCombs presents Søren Kierkegaard as an author who deliberately pretended to be irrational in many of his pseudonymous writings in order to provoke his readers to discover the hidden and paradoxical rationality of faith. Focusing on pseudonymous works by Johannes Climacus, McCombs interprets Kierkegaardian rationality as a striving to become a self consistently unified in all its dimensions: thinking, feeling, willing, acting, and communicating. McCombs argues that Kierkegaard's strategy of feigning irrationality is sometimes brilliantly instructive, but also partly misguided. This
- Contents:
- A pretense of irrationalism
- Paradoxical rationality
- Reverse theology
- The subtle power of simplicity
- A critique of indirect communication
- The figure of Socrates and the climacean capacity of paradoxical reason
- The figure of Socrates and the downfall of paradoxical reason
- The proof of paradoxical reason.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-239) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780253006578
- 0253006570
- 9781283979498
- 1283979497
- OCLC:
- 828740368
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