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Title: Excursions with Kierkegaard
Condition: New
Subtitle: Others, Goods, Death, and Final Faith
Author: Edward F. Mooney
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1441190341
EAN: 9781441190345
ISBN: 9781441190345
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Date: 14/02/2013
Description: 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, of love and the search for stable centers, of subjectivity as refinement of responsiveness to others, the world, and all we can value. These evocative explications aim to match his stride in tracking deep human concerns that evade academic and cultural pigeonholes. Like Hamlet, Kierkegaard gives us a "poem unlimited" that is open to endless reflection. Mooney's aim is to bring his matchless impulse and aspiration once more to life.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 216mm
Item Length: 138mm
Item Weight: 312g
Release Year: 2013

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