Mooney On Søren Kierkegaard

Dialogue, Polemics, Lost Intimacy, and Time
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-91376-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 278 Seiten

Reihe: Transcending Boundaries in Philosophy and Theology

Tracing a path through Kierkegaard's writings, this book brings the reader into close contact with the texts and purposes of this remarkable 19th century Danish writer and thinker. Kierkegaard writes in a number of voices and registers: as a sharp observer and critic of Danish culture, or as a moral psychologist, and as a writer concerned to evoke the religious way of life of Socrates, Abraham, or a Christian exemplar. In developing these themes, Mooney sketches Kierkegaard's Socratic vocation, gives a close reading of several central texts, and traces 'The Ethical Sublime' as a recurrent theme. He unfolds an affirmative relationship between philosophy and theology and the potentialities for a religiousness that defies dogmatic creeds, secular chauvinisms, and restrictive philosophies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mooney, Edward F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Preface; Part 1 Kierkegaard: A Socrates in Christendom: A new Socrates: the gadfly in Copenhagen; A religious and interrogating Socrates: seduction and definition; Kierkegaard's double vocation: Socrates becomes Christian; Transforming subjectivities: lost intimacy, words on the fly. Part 2 Love, Ethics, and Tremors in Time: Love, this lenient interpreter: masks reveal complexity of self; Anxious glances: a seaward look renews time and seeker; Either/or: perils in polarity: crossing the aesthetic-ethical divide; Fear and trembling: spectacular diversions; Repetition: gifts in world-renewal: repetition is requited time. Part 3 Plenitude, Prayer, and an Ethical Sublime: Postscript and other ethics: intimations of our next self; Postscript: possibilities imparted: the artistry of intimate connections; Postscript: humor takes it back: revocation opens for a requited time; Discourses: plenitude and prayer: words instill silence - to what end? Bibliography Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Edward F. Mooney is Professor in the Departments of Religion and Philosophy at Syracuse University, USA, and is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Sonoma State University, USA.