Kierkegaard for beginners

by Palmer, Donald D.

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Full title :Kierkegaard for beginners / written and illustrated by Donald D. Palmer.

Summary

"The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard was one of the most original thinkers of the nineteenth century - and one of the most enigmatic men who ever walked the earth." "Philosophically, Kierkegaard was the "bridge" that led from Hegel to Existentialism." "Kierkegaard abhorred Hegel's abstract, know-it-all idealism that tried to capture reality in a few words. Kierkegaard's attack on social and religious complacency and his single-handed assault on traditional Western philosophy generated a crisis that produced a radically new way of philosophizing and made him the founder of the school that would later be called Existentialism. To Kierkegaard, reality was personal, subjective - it began and ended with the individual - and philosophy was not something one merely talked about, it was the way you lived." "For such a brilliant thinker, the way Kierkegaard lived was ... somewhat too interesting. His "abstract" love affair? His obsession with death? His "Leap of Faith," his cynicism, his marvellous sense of humor - how do you put all that into one man?"--Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1996

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Writers and Readers
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1996

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (vi, 150 pages : : illustrations)

Edition Identifiers

oclc:on1035882734
LC Classification:B4377
Dewey Decimal:198.9

Who was Soren Kierkegaard? -- Indirect communication -- Objective and subjective truth -- "Death" and "existence" as subjective truths -- Consciousness is the problem -- Dread -- Despair -- The three forms of existence -- A. The aesthetic sphere -- B. The ethical sphere -- C. The religious sphere -- Glossary.