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Excursions with Kierkegaard: Others, Goods, Death, and Final Faith
Professor Edward F. Mooney
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Description for Excursions with Kierkegaard: Others, Goods, Death, and Final Faith
Paperback. An evocative guide through Kierkegaard's major themes of fragility, faith, birth, and death. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HRAB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 312.
Noted Kierkegaard scholar Edward Mooney guides the reader through the major themes of the Danish philosopher's life and thought. Each chapter frames a striking issue, usually encapsulated in a short passage from Kierkegaard, and pursues it directly and deeply. Kierkegaard speaks to our need for self-understanding, our need to negotiate the tensions between surprisingly subtle capacities for communication and surprisingly easy descent into clichés and banality. The chapter of this book follow and re-animate Kierkegaard's brilliant and humorous discussions of death and authenticity, of the maternal and paternal in faith and self-transformations, of self-deception and obsessive judgmentalism, ... Read more
Noted Kierkegaard scholar Edward Mooney guides the reader through the major themes of the Danish philosopher's life and thought. Each chapter frames a striking issue, usually encapsulated in a short passage from Kierkegaard, and pursues it directly and deeply. Kierkegaard speaks to our need for self-understanding, our need to negotiate the tensions between surprisingly subtle capacities for communication and surprisingly easy descent into clichés and banality. The chapter of this book follow and re-animate Kierkegaard's brilliant and humorous discussions of death and authenticity, of the maternal and paternal in faith and self-transformations, of self-deception and obsessive judgmentalism, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781441190345
SKU
V9781441190345
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About Professor Edward F. Mooney
Edward F. Mooney is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Syracuse University, USA. He is the author or editor of eight books, including Kierkegaard's Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs (Editor and Introduction, Oxford World Classics, 2009), On Soren Kierkegaard (Ashgate, 2007), Ethics, Love, and Faith in Kierkegaard: A Philosophical Engagement (Indiana University Press, 2008), Selves in Discord and Resolve: Kierkegaard's Moral-Religious ... Read more
Reviews for Excursions with Kierkegaard: Others, Goods, Death, and Final Faith
Mooney’s voice is a unique one in Kierkegaard studies, attentive and intimate, restless and affirmative, perhaps even a peculiarly American voice, the Dane by way of Whitman and Melville and Emerson. […] Mooney’s soliloquies speak deeply about pain and loss and Kierkegaardian resources for coping with suffering without trivializing it, but there is not much vocabulary of sin or salvation ... Read more