Kierkegaard - An Introduction

Informationen zum Autor C. Stephen Evans is University Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Baylor University. His most recent published works include Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling (2006) co-edited with Sylvia Walsh and Kierkegaard's Ethics of Love: Divine Commands and Moral Obligations (2004). Klappentext This clear! readable introduction to Kierkegaard presents him as a thinker with powerful answers to the questions which philosophers ask. Zusammenfassung In this book, C. Stephen Evans provides a clear, readable introduction to Søren Kierkegaard (1813–55) as a philosopher and thinker. He brings Kierkegaard into conversation with western philosophers past and present, presenting him as one who gives powerful answers to the questions which philosophers ask. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Kierkegaard's life and works; 2. Pseudonymity and indirect communication; 3. The human self: truth and subjectivity; 4. The stages of existence: forms of the aesthetic life; 5. The ethical life as the quest for selfhood; 6. Religious existence: religiousness; 7. Christian existence: faith and the paradox; 8. Kierkegaard's dual challenge to the contemporary world.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: C. Stephen Evans, C. Stephen (Baylor University Evans, Evans C. Stephen
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 25.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521700412
• ISBN: 978-0-521-70041-2
• Dimensioni: 151 mm x 228 mm x 11 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: dall'antichità ai giorni nostri; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, RELIGION / Philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy of religion, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -