Kierkegaard in context : a festschrift for Jon Stewart / edited by Lee C. Barrett and Peter Š̌ajda.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barrett, Lee C., editor.

Šajda, Peter, editor.

Stewart, Jon (Jon Bartley), honouree.

Series:

Mercer Kierkegaard series

[Mercer Kierkegaard series]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855--Criticism and interpretation.

Kierkegaard, Søren.

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xviii, 238 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2019]

Summary:

The essays in this volume are inspired by the influential and multi-faceted work of Jon Stewart on the historical context and subsequent legacy of Søren Kierkegaard. Following the lead of Stewart, they provide a corrective to readings that treat Kierkegaard's texts and the works of writers influenced by him in abstraction from the specific conversations, disputes, and trends in which they were situated. The array of essays presents an interdisciplinary and international engagement with the philosophy, religion, and culture of Golden Age Denmark and Northern Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Some explore the specific issues, academic debates, and cultural crises with which Kierkegaard and his contemporaries wrestled, illumining how thinkers like Kierkegaard, Heiberg, and Martensen would have been understood in their own era. Some explore the overt or more surreptitious influence of Kierkegaard upon later thinkers. Other essays take a broader look at the history of modern philosophy, searching for continuities and discontinuities. Still others use reflections on Kierkegaard's context as a springboard and a resource to launch their own creative philosophical and theological reflections. Taken together, these essays clarify how the immediate intellectual environment in which Kierkegaard's thought evolved contained the seeds of the intellectual dynamics of emergent modernity and post-modernity. Kierkegaard's enormously generative and destabilizing era has bequeathed to the contemporary world the constellation of issues associated with the tension of relativism and absolutism, nihilism and dogmatism, and subjectivism and objectivism, all of which still animate our cultural world. Contributors include: Lee C. Barrett, Maria J. Binetti, Istavan Czako, Roe Fremstedal, Dario Gonzalez, Finn Gredal jensen, Nathaniel Kramer, Peter Sajda, Gerhard Schriber, Heiko Schulz, K. Brian Soederquist, Curtis L. Thompson.

Contents:

Kierkegaard on the Trinity: The Challenge and Solace of Triune Pathos p. 31 / Lee C. Barrett

Present Past: Traumatic Memory in Kierkegaard's Repetition p. 57 / Nate Kramer

The Diaries of P. C. Kierkegaard: An Overview p. 74 / Finn Gredal Jensen

Kierkegaard's Relations to Idealism Demystified p. 98 / Maria J. Binetti

"Hidden Inwardness" and "Subjectivity is Truth": Kant and Kierkegaard on Moral Psychology and Religious Pragmatism p. 112 / Roe Fremstedal

Nietzsche and the "Refutation" of Christian Theism p. 130 / Dario González

The End of Christianity? Remarks about Karl Jaspers' Criticism of Kierkegaard's Concept of Faith p. 143 / István Czakó

Ambiguity, Indecision, Nonexceptionality: Kierkegaard in Carl Schmitt's Political Theology p. 158 / Peter Sajda

Kierkegaard, Facticity, and Selfhood p. 177 / K. Brian Söderquist

Thinking's Regeneration in the Valley of the Shadow of Death: Kierkegaard's Systematic Unsaying of Apophaticism's Unsaying p. 189 / Curtis L. Thompson

Divine Revelation: Outlines of a Conceptual, Typological, and Epistemic Account p. 217 / Heiko Schulz.

Notes:

Series statement from dust jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0881467235

9780881467239

OCLC:

1109972414