Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript': A Critical Guide Contributor(s): Furtak, Rick Anthony (Editor) |
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ISBN: 052189798X ISBN-13: 9780521897983 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Non-classifiable |
Dewey: 198.9 |
LCCN: 2010011448 |
Series: Cambridge Critical Guides |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9" (1.23 lbs) 272 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: S ren 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. |