Salighed as happiness? : Kierkegaard on the concept Salighed / Abrahim H. Khan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khan, Abrahim H.

Series:

Kierkegaard monograph series.

Kierkegaard monograph series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kierkegaard, Sren, 1813-1855--Contributions in the concept of happiness.

Kierkegaard, Sren.

Happiness--History--19th century.

Happiness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont., Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1985.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work is an exposition of Salighed, a concept at the heart of Kierkegaard's thought, and the dialectical starting point for his reflections on what it means to live a genuinely human life. Kierkegaard studies to date appear to have underestimated the importance of the word and the concepts that lie behind it—perhaps because the word appears easily translated into the English forms of "eternal happiness" or "blessedness." This, suggests Khan, does little justice to the concepts behind the word, and does even less justice to the relationships of the concept of Salighed to other concepts crucial to Kierkegaard's thought. Khan's approach to this word/concept study has been greatly augmented by his use of the computer in analyzing word-relatedness, context, and frequency of occurrence, both within individual works and in comparing one work with a context of the Kierkegaard corpus. The volume will, of course, be of interest to students of Kierkegaard. It will also be of interest to those scholars intrigued by the possibilities of using computers in linguistic research and in literary studies.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Preface

Abbreviations

The Study and Its Scope

From Texts to Conceptual Models

Salighed in Eighteen Edifying Discourses

Salighed in Concluding Unscientific Postscript

Salighed in the Religious Discourses

The Concept Salighed

Concluding Remarks

Figures and Tables

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

9786613810014

9781554585113

1554585112

9781282166943

1282166948

9780889207462

0889207461

OCLC:

243586233