Art and Praise in Kierkegaards Works of Love

With a focus on Works of Love, this book argues that for Kierkegaard the living of the life of faith and love is a kind of art, involving skillful attention to the specificity of the episodes in an individual's life, and the creative imagining of new ways of enacting these virtues.

List of contents

List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One: The Poetry of Faith in Fear and Trembling
Chapter Two: Love's Art of Upbuilding
Chapter Three: The Arts of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Peace-Making
Chapter Four: The Art of Praising Love
Chapter Five: Two Examples of Praising Love
Chapter Six: Love's Equality
Conclusion
Appendix: The Wisdom of Love
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Richard McCombs teaches at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author of The Paradoxical Rationality of Sören Kierkegaard and Art and Praise in Kierkegaard’s Works of Love.

Summary

With a focus on Works of Love, this book argues that for Kierkegaard the living of the life of faith and love is a kind of art, involving skillful attention to the specificity of the episodes in an individual’s life, and the creative imagining of new ways of enacting these virtues.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Mccombs
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781666936056
• ISBN: 978-1-66693-605-6
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: New Kierkegaard Research
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, Europe, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, RELIGION / Theology, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Theology, Literature: history & criticism, Western philosophy from c 1800, Literature: history and criticism