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Zusatztext '? offers a detailed examination of Kierkegaard on self-love ? The book is lucid! well organized! and carefully attentive to the relevant contemporary literature. It will be an excellent acquisition for all libraries supporting work on Kierkegaard! the nature of love! or the philosophy of religion ? Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above.' Choice Informationen zum Autor John Lippitt is Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Hertfordshire. His publications include Humour and Irony in Kierkegaard's Thought (2000) and The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kierkegaard and Fear and Trembling (2003, 2nd edition forthcoming). Lippitt is editor of Nietzsche's Futures (1999), and co-editor of Nietzsche and the Divine (with Jim Urpeth, 2000) and The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard (with George Pattison, 2013). Klappentext What impact will the Euro crisis have on the future of the European Union? Sergio Fabbrini argues that a new European political order is necessary based on an institutional differentiation between the EU member states interested only in market co-operation and those advancing towards a genuine economic and monetary union. Zusammenfassung This book shows the relevance of a Kierkegaard-inspired account of what it means to love oneself properly to such topics as friendship! romantic love! trust! forgiveness and pride. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Kierkegaard and those interested in philosophical and theological ethics and moral psychology. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: how should I love myself?; 2. Cracking the mirror: friendship and the problem of self-love; 3. Self-love in Works of Love: explicit references; 4. The problem of special relationships: self-love's wider context; 5. Another take on self-love: an excursus on Harry Frankfurt; 6. Love's blank cheques: on self-denial and its limitations; 7. Towards a more positive account of self-love, I: trust and hope; 8. Towards a more positive account of self-love, II: self-forgiveness and self-respect; 9. An immodest proposal: a coda on rehabilitating pride; 10. Summary and conclusion....
