Name: Kierkegaard: A Guide for the Perplexed
ISBN: 9780826486110

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Kierkegaard: A Guide for the Perplexed

Clare Carlisle

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Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to fathom, these books explain and explore key themes and ideas, guiding the reader towards a thorough understanding of demanding material. Soren Kierkegaard was the progenitor of existentialism, as well as a major literary figure and philosopher of ethics and religion. As such, he is a key figure in modern Western philosophy, one whose poetic, though complex, works - including the seminal Fear and Trembling - require close and careful study. Kierkegaard: A Guide for the Perplexed offers a cogent, comprehensive and authoritative account of Kierkegaard's philosophy, ideal for students and readers coming to his work for the first time and who want to reach a full and detailed understanding of this major thinker and writer. The book explores the relationship - particularly important in Kierkegaard's case - between his life and work. It covers the literary and philosophical challenges raised by Kierkegaard's 'direct' and 'indirect' forms of communication; considers Kierkegaard's important critique of Hegel; opens up his ideas on subjectivity and truth; and provides illuminating commentaries on both Fear and Trembling and Philosophical Fragments. Valuably, the guide shows how Kierkegaard's philosophical, religious, social, literary and personal concerns are integrated and unified in his works. It also assesses his influence on later philosophers, including Heidegger, Wittgenstein and Sartre.

Book Details

Publisher: Continuum
Publish Date: Jan 21st, 2007
Pages: 192
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.48in - 5.50in - 0.53in - 0.51lb
EAN: 9780826486110
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About the Author

Carlisle, Clare: - Clare Carlisle is Professor of Philosophy at King's College London, UK. She is the author of several books including Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard (2019), Spinoza's Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics (2021), and The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life (2023).

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Søren Kierkegaard died #OnThisDay 1855. ‘Kierkegaard identifies anxiety as a fundamental human experience...It’s not a psychological phenomenon for Kierkegaard, but something that belongs to the structure of being human.’ Clare Carlisle on Kierkegaard https://t.co/RretmfFsFs

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"he burned himself out restlessly, relentlessly pursuing this question of how to be a human being" - Clare Carlisle on Søren Kierkegaard @five_books https://t.co/BKHnm4PK5I

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"In this fairly short, very clear, wide-ranging and quite lively introduction to the philosophically religious thought of Søren Kierkegaard, Claire Carlisle has done a service of great value to undergraduate students and also non-specialists interested in the formidable and vast collection of texts written -- though, importantly, not all signed, -- by Søren Kierkegaard ... the presentation of this book is happily very understandable and consistently illuminating." --Matthew Ray for Metapsychology

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"he burned himself out restlessly, relentlessly pursuing this question of how to be a human being" - Clare Carlisle on Søren Kierkegaard @five_books https://t.co/BKHnm4PK5I

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