Theory and Practice in Kant and Kierkegaard

Ulrich Knappe

Published by De Gruyter 2004

Theory and Practice in Kant and Kierkegaard

Ulrich Knappe

Volume 9 in the series Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110200904

Overview
Contents

About this book

This work investigates crucial aspects of Kant's epistemology and ethics in relation to Kierkegaard's thinking. The challenge is taken up of developing a systematic reconstruction of Kant's and Kierkegaard's position. Kant forms a matrix for the interpretation of Kierkegaard, and considerable space is devoted to the exposition of Kant at those various points at which contact with Kierkegaard's thought is to be demonstrated. The burden of the argument is that Kierkegaard in his account of the stages is much closer to Kant than the texts initially reveal. It is possible, then, to arrive at a proper grasp of Kierkegaard's final position by seeing just how radically the stage of Christian faith (Religiousness B) departs from Kant.

Author / Editor information

Ulrich Knappe works at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at Copenhagen University, Denmark.

Reviews

"This excellent study of Kierkegaard is based on a very careful reading of the texts and a keen understanding of the issues Kierkegaard confronted. The surprising conclusion to which the author comes, that Kierkegaard's philosophy is in its basic structure very close to that of Kant is elaborated with great frown and clarity and vigourously defended. This book will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the history of ethics in the 19th century and indeed to anyone concerned with ethics as a serious philosophical enterprise."
Raymond Geuss/Reader in Philosophy/University of Cambridge

Topics

Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Chapter 1. In Search of a Theory of Knowledge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Chapter 2. Kierkegaard’s Explicit and Implicit Critiques of Kant’s Theory of Knowledge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Chapter 3. Double-Mindedness or the Failure of an Orientation of the Will Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
Chapter 4. The Ethical Stage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Chapter 5. The Religious Conception in Purity of Heart and Postscript Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Chapter 6. The Christian Stage of Existence and Its Departure from Kant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 154
Keywords: Kant, Immanuel; Kierkegaard, Søren; Erkenntnistheorie; Stadientheorie

eBook

Published: August 22, 2008
ISBN: 9783110200904

Hardcover

Published: April 26, 2004
ISBN: 9783110177893