Kierkegaard (Blackwell Great Minds) - Hardcover

Ferreira, M. Jamie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405142774 ISBN 13: 9781405142779

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

Synopsis

The first comprehensive introduction to cover the entire span of Kierkegaard’s authorship.

• Explores how the two strands of his writing―religious discourses and pseudonymous literary creations―influenced each other
• Accompanies the reader chronologically through all the philosopher’s major works, and integrates his writing into his biography
• Employs a unique “how to” approach to help the reader discover individual texts on their own and to help them closely examine Kierkegaard’s language
• Presents the literary strategies employed in Kierkegaard’s work to give the reader insight into subtext

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This introduction to the writings of Søren Kierkegaard is for anyone who has felt daunted by the prospect of reading and understanding the work of one of the most important yet elusive 19th century thinkers. Kierkegaard scholar M. Jamie Ferreira sets out to make the Danish philosopher’s work accessible with a unique and innovative “how to” approach, guiding readers through his works and showing how he thought, rather than simply what he thought.

Kierkegaard is the first detailed introduction to his entire body of work, illustrating how literary, philosophical, theological, and psychological influences coincide in both the religious and pseudonymous (philosophical) works. Ferreira highlights the literary strategies Kierkegaard employed to awaken and challenge the reader and observes that the two very different arcs of his writing are nevertheless inexorably intertwined, rather than merely parallel, exerting a dramatic and dynamic influence on one other.

The result is an extraordinary text, suitable for accompanying the new reader of the primary works but with many things to offer those returning to them.

About the Author:

M. Jamie Ferreira is the Carolyn M. Barbour Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She holds a Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Religion from Princeton University, has taught Religious Studies and Philosophy for 30 years, was president of the Søren Kierkegaard Society and has been a Visiting Professor and Research Associate at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Center at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of Doubt and Religious Commitment: The Role of the Will in Newman's Thought (1980); Scepticism and Reasonable Doubt (1986); Transforming Vision: Imagination and Will in Kierkegaardian Faith (1991); and Love's Grateful Striving: A Commentary on Kierkegaard's Works of Love (2001).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1405142774
• ISBN 13: 9781405142779
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216