Love, Reason, and Will Kierkegaard After Frankfurt

by Rudd, Anthony; Davenport, John

• ISBN13: 9781628927313
• ISBN10: 1628927313
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-10-22
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Love, Reason, and Will: Kierkegaard After Frankfurt introduces and investigates themes common to Harry G. Frankfurt and Søren Kierkegaard, focusing particularly on their understanding of love. Several distinguished contributors argue that Kierkegaard's insights about love, volition, and identity can help us to evaluate aspects of Frankfurt's well-known arguments about love and caring; similarly, Frankfurt's analyses of the higher-order will, valuing, and self-love help clarify themes in Kierkegaard's Works of Love and other books.

By bringing these two key thinkers into conversation with each other, we may glean a new understanding of the structure of love, reasons for love or deriving from loving, and more broadly, the central ethical questions of "how to live" and to develop an authentic identity and meaningful life.

Love, Reason, and Will will appeal to readers interested in the philosophy of action and emotions, continental thought (especially in the existential tradition), the study of character in psychology, and theological work on neighbor-love and virtues.

Author Biography

John Davenport is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, USA. He is the author of Narrative Identity, Autonomy and Mortality: From Frankfurt and MacIntyre to Kierkegaard (2012); Will as Commitment and Resolve (2007) and co-editor of Kierkegaard After MacIntyre (2001).

Anthony Rudd is Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Olaf College, USA. He is the author of Self, Value and Narrative: a Kierkegaardian Approach (2012); Expressing the World: Skepticism, Wittgenstein and Heidegger (2003) and Kierkegaard and the Limits of the Ethical (1993). He is co-editor of Kierkegaard After MacIntyre (2001).

Table of Contents

Introduction
John Davenport, Fordham University, USA, and Anthony Rudd, St. Olaf College, USA

Section 1: Love and the Ground of Love
1. The Sources and Resources of Love: A Platonic Response to Frankfurt
Charles Taliaferro, St. Olaf College, USA
2. Love and Value, Yet Again
Alan Soble, University of New Orleans, USA
3. Frankfurt and Kierkegarard on B.S., Wantonness, and Aestheticism: A Phenomenology of Inauthenticity
John Davenport, Fordham University, USA

Section 2: Love and Self-Love
4. The Dear Self: Self-Love, Redoubling, and Self-Denial
Sylvia Walsh, Stetson University, USA
5. Love's Blank Cheques: Frankfurt and Kierkegaard on Self-Love and Self-Denial
John Lippitt, University of Hertfordshire, UK
6. The Fullness of Faith: Frankfurt and Kierkegaard on Self-Love and Human Flourishing
Marilyn G. Piety, Drexel University, USA

Section 3: Love and Its Reasons
7. My Self, Existentially Speaking
Annemarie van Stee, Leiden University, The Netherlands
8. Willing and the Necessities of Love in Frankfurt and Kierkegaard
M. Jamie Ferreira, University of Virginia, USA
9. Love as the Ultimate Ground of Practical Reason: Kierkegaard, Frankfurt, and the Conditions
of Affective Experience
Rick Anthony Furtak, Colorado College, USA
10. The Importance of Who We Care About
Troy Jollimore, California State University, Chico, USA
11. Kierkegaard's Platonism and the Reasons of Love
Anthony Rudd, St. Olaf's College, USA

Index