Kierkegaardian Essays: A Festschrift in Honour of George Pattison

Published by De Gruyter 2022

Kierkegaardian Essays

A Festschrift in Honour of George Pattison

Edited by: Clare Carlisle and Steven Shakespeare

Volume 31 in the series Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110742480

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About this book

Søren Kierkegaard argued that the most essential truths come to light by asking "How…?" This innovative collection of essays by leading scholars focuses on this questioning "How?", asking how we should relate to ourselves, to others, and to God; how we should be in the world; how we can become human. The result is a searching, original colloquium on what it means to be Kierkegaardian in the 21st century.
The adjective "Kierkegaardian" names many possibilities: ways of philosophizing, choosing, loving, looking, listening, reading, writing, teaching, making art, praying, going to church – or not going to church. "How" gestures to subjectivity, one of Kierkegaard’s most fundamental philosophical categories, while "What" signals an objectifying line of thought. The authors of these essays suggest that the crucial Kierkegaardian question is not what we are and ought to do, but how we can remain true to the finitude, passivity, and ambiguity of human existence.
While this Kierkegaardian "how" is often acknowledged by scholars, it is rarely thematized directly. Attending to it elicits new kinds of argument and reflection. Kierkegaardian Essays proposes a fresh approach to Kierkegaard, and is essential reading for experts and students alike.

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Clare Carlisle, King's College London, London and Steven Shakespeare, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
What Does It Mean to Be Human? Ingolf Dalferth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Teach Us to Care and Not to Care Clare Carlisle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Speculate Like a Kierkegaardian! Daniel Whistler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
The Riddle of Irony Stephen Mulhall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Interlude I: Wayward Intimacies Noreen Khawaja Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
A Smile From Every Child Hugh S. Pyper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
“Was It—Love?” “No, No, It Was Søren Kierkegaard” Iben Damgaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
The Generous Eye Joel D. S. Rasmussen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
On Love, Teaching, and Forgetting Matthew D. Kirkpatrick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Interlude II: Summon the Earnest Thought of Death Gordon Marino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Vocation and the Voice of Conscience Claudia Welz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
From the Lily and the Bird, Let us Learn: Nothing Steven Shakespeare Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Melancholy and Modernity Christopher B. Barnett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Why Kierkegaard? Seventy Theses, Declarations, and Expressions of Thanks Joakim Garff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
About the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholors in philosophy, theology, religious studies, literary studies, cultural studies, philosophy of religion
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 218
Keywords: Kierkegaard; existentialism; Pattison; George

eBook

Published: April 19, 2022
ISBN: 9783110742480

Hardcover

Published: May 3, 2022
ISBN: 9783110741995