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Offering original research by both leading and new scholars, this book revisits the vexed and contested questions of Kierkegaard's Works of Love and demonstrates its continuing relevance and importance to present-day debates. It will be valuable to students of philosophy, theology, ecology, and political theory.
List of contents
Introduction Jeffrey Hanson and Wojciech Kaftanski; 1. Kierkegaard's view of neighbor love: both a duty and a virtue C. Stephen Evans; 2. Love's object, love's aim Robert Stern and Daniel Watts; 3. Self-love and selfhood Dar Triffon Reshef; 4. Beyond eros and agape: the absent third form of love Rick Anthony Furtak; 5. Love (Does and) does not seek its own: love of self and neighbor in the development of Eiendommelighed Deidre Nicole Green; 6. A Trinitarian approach to Kierkegaard's works of love Todd DeRose and Matt Aroney; 7. The limits of suspicion and the possibilities of love Amber Bowen; 8. What happened to the meadow? An ecological perspective on works of love Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal; 9. 'To love a second time:' love as time-bound repetition of commitment to the good of the other Wojciech Kaftanski; 10. Generosity of spirit and moral criticism: how the 'one who loves' overcomes self-righteousness John Lippitt; 11. Love before the law: 'justice' Frances Maughan-Brown; 12. Love as the antidote to despair Jeffrey Hanson; 13. The individual in the social world: on human equality in Kierkegaard's works of love read in light of a literary review Iben Damgaard; 14. 'God as the middle term' or: love and the meaningful life Sharon Krishek; Bibliography; Index.
Summary
Offering original research by both leading and new scholars, this book revisits the vexed and contested questions of Kierkegaard's Works of Love and demonstrates its continuing relevance and importance to present-day debates. It will be valuable to students of philosophy, theology, ecology, and political theory.
Foreword
New and original essays from both established and young scholars on Kierkegaard's monumental text on love.
