Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript'

. Ed(s): Furtak, Rick Anthony

ISBN 10: 1107411408 / ISBN 13: 9781107411401

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2012

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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: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380. . 2012. Paperback. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript'
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107411408
• ISBN 13: 9781107411401
• Binding: Soft cover
• 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.

Book Description

These 2010 essays offer a plurality of critical approaches to Kierkegaard's fundamental text of existential philosophy. They cover hotly debated topics such as the tension between the Socratic-philosophical and the Christian-religious; the identity of Kierkegaard's pseudonym 'Johannes Climacus'; his conceptions of paradoxical faith and of passionate understanding; and his contemporary pertinence.