The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard

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Alastair Hannay, Gordon Daniel Marino
Cambridge University Press, 1998 - 428 pages
This companion probes the full depth of Kierkegaard's thought revealing its distinctive subtlety. The topics covered include Kierkegaard's views on art and religion, ethics and psychology, theology and politics, and knowledge and virtue. Much attention is devoted to the influence of Kierkegaard on twentieth-century philosophy. New readers will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Kierkegaard currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Kierkegaard.
 

Contents

The modern breakthrough
6
IO Developing Fear and Trembling
11
Twentiethcentury
48
Art in an age of reflection
76
Kierkegaard and Hegel
101
The perils of reflexive irony
125
Realism and antirealism in Kierkegaards Concluding
154
Classical themes
177
Kierkegaard on grace
235
GREEN
257
Getting the world back
282
Anxiety in The Concept of Anxiety
308
Kierkegaard and the variety of despair
329
Kierkegaards Christian ethics
349
Religious dialectics and Christology
376
The utilitarian self and the useless passion
397

Faith and the Kierkegaardian leap
207

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