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Poetry and Heroism: An Encounter with Kierkegaard

Richard McCombs

Kierkegaard lamented that many people find life distressingly empty, devoid of consolation, and a cause for despair; and set out to provide a remedy to this malaise. As a "singular kind of poet and thinker," he employed a holistic approach, which he strikingly called "dialectical lyric," to the all-important question of how we should live. His poetic task is to praise ideals, and heroes who represent them, in order to make readers profoundly appreciate the worth of the ideals, to help them experience intimately and concretely what it is like to serve something of infinite value, and thus to awaken them to their own heroic vocations. His task as a thinker or dialectician is to articulate the essence of competing ways of life, and to distinguish them from one another, so that it is possible to choose between them responsibly and without confusion. In Poetry and Heroism readers will encounter Kierkegaard's alluring invitation to live poetically and heroically, or to become the hero of one's own life, by striving passionately to become a faithful replica of ideals which can give profound meaning to human existence and which can help readers discover what Kierkegaard calls one's "eternal validity."

Book Details

  • Publisher: Cascade Books
  • Publish Date: Apr 8th, 2025
  • Pages: 128
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.31in - 0.40lb
  • EAN: 9798385208692
  • Categories: RhetoricIndividual PhilosophersChristian Theology - Ethics & Moral Teaching

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About the Author

McCombs, Richard: - Richard McCombs teaches at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author of The Paradoxical Rationality of Sören Kierkegaard and Art and Praise in Kierkegaard's Works of Love.

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