On Søren Kierkegaard: Dialogue, Polemics, Lost Intimacy, and Time

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.

Author: Edward F. Mooney
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 06/28/2007
Series: Transcending Boundaries in Philosophy and Theology
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780754658221