On Sren Kierkegaard: Dialogue, Polemics, Lost Intimacy, and Time by Edward F. Mo

Description: On Sren Kierkegaard by Edward F. Mooney Tracing a path through Soren Kierkegaards writings, this book brings the reader into contact with the texts and purposes of this 19th century Danish writer and thinker. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Tracing a path through Kierkegaards 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 Kierkegaards 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 Biography Edward F. Mooney is Professor in the Departments of Religion and Philosophy at Syracuse University, USA, and is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Sonoma State University, USA. Table of Contents Contents: Preface; Part 1 Kierkegaard: A Socrates in Christendom: A new Socrates: the gadfly in Copenhagen; A religious and interrogating Socrates: seduction and definition; Kierkegaards double vocation: Socrates becomes Christian; Transforming subjectivities: lost intimacy, words on the fly. Part 2 Love, Ethics, and Tremors in Time: Love, this lenient interpreter: masks reveal complexity of self; Anxious glances: a seaward look renews time and seeker; Either/or: perils in polarity: crossing the aesthetic-ethical divide; Fear and trembling: spectacular diversions; Repetition: gifts in world-renewal: repetition is requited time. Part 3 Plenitude, Prayer, and an Ethical Sublime: Postscript and other ethics: intimations of our next self; Postscript: possibilities imparted: the artistry of intimate connections; Postscript: humor takes it back: revocation opens for a requited time; Discourses: plenitude and prayer: words instill silence - to what end? Bibliography Index. Review Ed Mooney has long been known as one of the more textually sensitive, philosophically nuanced and existentially insightful of contemporary Kierkegaard commentators. All these qualities are well evidenced in this new set of studies that will alert the unwary to often unnoticed dimensions of Kierkegaards writing, both to its prayerful silences and to its fairground bombast and self-mockery. In reading Kierkegaard the way he does, Mooney shows how the Danish thinker can help us develop some of the new and refreshing ways of doing philosophy of religion that are emerging today. Not only undergraduates and researchers, but anyone who cares about how the classics of modern thought can help us live better human lives will be encouraged - given heart - by this book, and led to see familiar texts and questions in a subtle but penetrating new light. George Pattison, Christ Church, Oxford, UK ... a gifted writer, Mooney offers some real gems...Recommended. Choice ... I do recommend On SÃ¸ren Kierkegaard to anyone interested in Kierkegaard. Especially those with particular interest in Kierkegaards Socratic identity, Either/Or and the Concluding Unscientific Postscript will find informative and insightful elaborations. Ethical Perspectives ... much more than an introduction into the work of Kierkegaard. Even those familiar with his work and secondary literature can find a lot of thought-awakening judgments, a bunch of fresh formulations, and beautiful interpretations. The strength of this well-written, easily readable book is that it does not engage in Kierkegaardian navel-gazing, but opens up the Danish thinkers universe, showing its significance in both historic and contemporary contexts. Ars Disputandi Mooney has not only presented an incisive and insightful exposition of Kierkegaards thought, but has also managed to draw the reader into a process of self-discovery that is consistent with Kierkegaards own method of indirect communicat Long Description Tracing a path through Kierkegaards writings, this book brings the reader into close contact with various texts and purposes of this remarkable 19th century Danish writer and thinker. Kierkegaard writes in a number of voices and registers of concern, sometimes as a sharp observer and critic of Danish culture, at times as a moral psychologist and sometimes Kierkegaards main concern is the evocation of a religious way of life. These multi fold concerns are close to contemporary struggles to understand self and self-development, the interweaving of spiritual concerns with the fabric of everyday life, the fragility of self and the openness of the human to artistic, moral, and religious modes of expression, in moments of insight and conflict. In developing these themes, Mooney sketches what he calls Kierkegaards unfolding polyphonic humanistic self before embarking on a thematic tour of five of Kierkegaards major texts, Either/Or through Discourses conveying throughout, a sympathy with much of Kierkegaards accomplishments. Details ISBN0754658228 Author Edward F. Mooney Year 2007 ISBN-10 0754658228 ISBN-13 9780754658221 Format Paperback Publication Date 2007-06-28 Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 198.9 Birth 1941 Series Transcending Boundaries in Philosophy and Theology Subtitle Dialogue, Polemics, Lost Intimacy, and Time Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Illustrations black & white illustrations Pages 278 Language English Media Book DOI 10.1604/9780754658221 UK Release Date 2007-06-28 AU Release Date 2007-06-28 NZ Release Date 2007-06-28 Alternative 9780754658207 Audience Undergraduate Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134440766;

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