UID:
edocfu_9959202535902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (209 pages)
ISBN:
1-350-02007-9
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1-350-02004-4
Inhalt:
"Kierkegaard's religious discourses--his writings which have explicitly dealt with religion--have historically been given scant attention by philosophers. They have generally been considered to be of less philosophical interest than his 'proper' philosophy. Errant Affirmations radically questions this claim and considers Kierkegaard's religious writings as absolutely central to his philosophical vision. Through close and clear readings of Kierkegaard's work, David Kangas argues that contemporary philosophical themes--gift, temporality, language, death, nothingness, economy and selfhood--are not only evident in the 'religious' works but explored with real depth and fascination. Above all, the book argues that Kierkegaard's positive account of the human condition, his "ontology," fully emerges only in these discourses. It shows how these discourses are organized around an "errant" kind of affirmation--namely, an affirmation of existence that is without conditions. Such affirmation involves the intensification of life around "today" and coincides with a joy that has no particular cause. It is an affirmation capable of affirming life even amidst its finitude and suffering. Errant Affirmations is a fresh interpretation of Kierkegaard's understudied works that not only opens up a new reading of Kierkegaard but elucidates his 'religious' texts and places them organically within his philosophy as a whole."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Anmerkung:
Includes index.
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Introduction -- Part One. Inversions of Thought and Speech: The Edifying Discourses (1843-1844). Chapter 1. Affirming time: discourse on the expectancy of faith (1843) ; Chapter 2. The gift of being: "Every Good and Perfect Gift Comes Down from Above" (1843) ; Chapter 3. Undergoing time: discourses on patience (1843-44) ; Chapter 4. Human lack: to need God is a human being's highest perfection (1844) -- Part Two. Occasions of Affirmation: Occasional Discourses (1845). Chapter 5. The non-place of truth: discourse on confession (1845) ; Chapter 6. On being-together-with-death: discourse "At a Graveside" (1845) -- Part Three. Bloomings: Discourses on "The Lily of The Field and The Bird of The Air" (1847, 1849). Chapter 7. Against care: discourses on the lilies of the field and the birds of the air (1847) ; Chapter 8. Lily-bird-being/joy without condition: The lily of the field and the bird of the air (1849) -- Postscript: the edifying and the tragic -- Notes -- Index.
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Also issued in print.
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.5040/9781350020078
