Knights of Faith and Resignation

Reading Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling

AvEdward F. Mooney

Häftad, Engelska, 1991

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Knights of Faith and Resignation brings out the richness of Kierkegaard's creative invention, the contemporary relevance of his contrasts between resignation and faith, and his probing conceptual analysis of aesthetic, moral, and religious psychology and life-perspectives. And in tracing Kierkegaard's analysis of objectivity, subjectivity, virtue ethics, passion, dilemmas, commitment, and self-reflection, Mooney brings out a striking convergence between Kierkegaard and analytic philosophy — the tradition of Socrates, Kant, and Wittgenstein, and its more contemporary practitioners, writers like Charles Taylor, Thomas Nagel, Stanley Cavell, Bernard Williams, and Harry Frankfurt.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1991-07-03
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:299 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in Philosophy
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791405734

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Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

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Edward F. Mooney is Professor of Philosophy at Sonoma State University.

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"Apart from the excellent style and clarity of exposition, what I like best about this book is the remarkable success with which the author probes a classically problematic text, and not only brings it into clear relation with Kierkegaard's other principal texts, but also relates its themes to those of current work in moral philosophy. The book evinces an impressive command of the relevant literature, both specifically Kierkegaardian and that pertaining to deep moral issues currently debated." — Alastair Hannay, University of Oslo"This is a wonderful book: insightful, reflective, profound. I would not have thought it possible for anyone to say anything truly original about Kierkegaard's most widely-read and familiar work. Nonetheless, Mooney succeeds beyond reasonable expectation." — George R. Lucas, Jr., Clemson University

Innehållsförteckning

Preface Acknowledgments Note on Translation1. Masks and Commitment: An Introduction The Writer and His MasksReason in TransformationsThe Christian AssumptionAn Overview2. Ordeals of Meaning: Art, Deed, and System Preface: Commerce, Spirit, and Hegel's SystemAttunement: Finding the Symbolic KeySpeech in Praise of Abraham: Art and Admiration3. Ordeals of Love: Preamble from the Heart The Knight and His PrincessFinite/Infinite, Temporal/EternalResignation vs. FaithProprietary Claim and Selfless ConcernReceptivity and ReturnThe AbsurdAbraham: Dread and Joy4. Ordeals of Reason and Ethics: Dilemmas and Subjectivity Preserving Fear and TremblingSarte and DilemmaUniversal and ParticularAbraham's SilenceSubjectivity and Reason5. Ordeals of Reason and Ethics: Suspensions and Faiths Suspension as DilemmaIrrationality, Faith, and the FanaticRefusing GodFaiths, Secular, and Religious6. Ordeals and Reconciliations: Getting Isaac Back Resignation, Humility, and ValueSuspending the Universal: Individual WorthGift and GiverEssential Humanity: The Universal Returned7. Ordeals and Reconciliations: Faith and Moral Virtue ClarificationsKant, Kierkegaard, and Hidden InwardnessThe Invisible KnightThe Tale Retold8. Ordeals of Silence: Ethics and Transformations DisclosureMarks of the EthicalThe Limits of EthicsEthics Transformed9. Ordeals of Silence: Faith and Concealments Silences Once MoreKinds of ConcealmentWriting and Redemption10. From Socrates to Abraham: An EpilogueNotes Bibliography Index