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Passionate Reason: Making Sense of Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments

C. Stephen Evans

Johannes Climacus, Søren Kierkegaard's pseudonymous author of Philosophical Fragments, "invents" a religion suspiciously resembling Christianity as an alternative to the assumption that humans possess the Truth within themselves. Through this literary device, Climacus raises in a fresh and audacious way age-old questions about the relation of Christian faith to human reason. Is the idea of a human incarnation of God logically coherent? Is religious faith the product of a voluntary choice? In a comprehensive discussion of one of Kierkegaard's most important books, C. Stephen Evans elucidates Kierkegaard's novel explanation that the tension between faith and reason must be understood as a consequence of the passionate character of reason itself. Passionate Reason situates Kierkegaard's philosophy in the context of postmodern religious thought, providing a contemporary reading of Fragments as a challenge to both the modern Enlightenment critique of reason and the postmodern abandonment of truth.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
  • Publish Date: Nov 1st, 1992
  • Pages: 224
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.78in - 5.82in - 0.77in - 0.95lb
  • EAN: 9780253320735
  • Categories: History & Surveys - GeneralPhilosophyChristianity - General

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