Excursions with Kierkegaard : others, goods, death, and final faith / Edward F. Mooney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mooney, Edward F., 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Faith--Philosophy.

Faith.

Kierkegaard, Sren, 1813-1855.

Kierkegaard, Sren.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury, c2013.

Summary:

Noted Kierkegaard scholar Edward Mooney guides the reader through the major themes of the Danish philosopher's life and thought. Each chapter frames a striking issue, usually encapsulated in a short passage from Kierkegaard, and pursues it directly and deeply. Kierkegaard speaks to our need for self-understanding, our need to negotiate the tensions between surprisingly subtle capacities for communication and surprisingly easy descent into clichés and banality. The chapter of this book follow and re-animate Kierkegaard's brilliant and humorous discussions of death and authenticity, of the mater

Contents:

FC; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue; Acknowledgments; An Invitation; 1 Subjectivity: Exposure, Care, and Response; 2 On Self, Others, Goods, and Final Faith; 3 On Style and Pseudonymity; 4 A Faith that Defies Self-Deception; 5 On Reflexivity, Vision, and "The" Self; 6 On Faith, the Maternal, and Postmodernism; 7 Socratic Self-Sufficiency, Christian Dependency; 8 On Authenticity; 9 The Garden of Death: Faith as Interpersonal; 10 When is Death?; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-87414-8

1-4411-2882-4

OCLC:

823724845