How to Read Kierkegaard

John D. Caputo offers a compelling account of Kierkegaard as a thinker of particular relevance in our postmodern times, who set off a revolution that counts Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida among its heirs. His conceptions of truth as a self-transforming deed and his haunting account of the single individual seem to have been written especially with us in mind Extracts include Kierkegaard s classic reading of the story of Abraham and Isaac, the revolutionary theory that truth is subjectivity, and his groundbreaking analysis of modern bourgeois life "

Author: John D. Caputo
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/01/2008
Series: How to Read #0
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.2lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.10w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780393330786