Kierkegaard on Faith and Love

Informationen zum Autor Sharon Krishek is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Philosophy Department at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Klappentext Explores Kierkegaard's belief that earthly love and religious life do not conflict but rather enhance and perfect one another. Zusammenfassung Sharon Krishek offers an original and compelling interpretation of the Works of Love in the light of Kierkegaard's famous analysis of the paradoxicality of faith in Fear and Trembling! showing that preferential love plays a much more important and positive role in his thinking than has usually been assumed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction. Stages on love's way; 1. Lost loves; 2. The sorrowful lover; 3. The knight of love; 4. Neighbourly love versus romantic love; 5. The double movement of love; 6. Faith-full romantic love; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Sharon Krishek, Sharon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Krishek
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.07.2009
• EAN: 9780521519410
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51941-0
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Modern European Philosophy (Ha; Modern European Philosophy; Modern European Philosophy (Ha
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works