Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript': A Critical Guide (Cambridge Critical Guides)

Edited by Rick Anthony Furtak

ISBN 10: 052189798X / ISBN 13: 9780521897983

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2010

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These 2010 essays offer a plurality of critical approaches to Kierkegaard's fundamental text of existential philosophy and explore its contemporary relevance. Editor(s): Furtak, Rick Anthony. Series: Cambridge Critical Guides. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 564. . 2010. hardcover. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript': A Critical Guide (Cambridge Critical Guides)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052189798X
• ISBN 13: 9780521897983
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Søren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript has provoked a lively variety of divergent interpretations for a century and a half. It has been both celebrated and condemned as the chief inspiration for twentieth-century existential thought, as a subversive parody of philosophical argument, as a critique of mass society, as a forerunner of phenomenology and of postmodern relativism, and as an appeal for a renewal of religious commitment. These new essays written by international Kierkegaard scholars offer a plurality of critical approaches to this fundamental text of existential philosophy. They cover hotly debated topics such as the tension between the Socratic-philosophical and the Christian-religious; the identity and personality of Kierkegaard's pseudonym ‘Johannes Climacus'; his conceptions of paradoxical faith and of passionate understanding; his relation to his contemporaries and to some of his more distant predecessors; and, last but not least, his pertinence to our present-day concerns.

About the Author

Rick Anthony Furtak is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College. His publications include Wisdom in Love: Kierkegaard and the Ancient Quest for Emotional Integrity (2005) and Rilke's "Sonnets to Orpheus" (2007).