The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard

by Edited by Alastair Hannay , Gordon Daniel Marino

• ISBN13: 9780521477192
• ISBN10: 0521477190
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-10-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Each volume of this series of Companions to major philosophers contains specially-commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. The contributors to this Companion probe the full depth of Kierkegaard's thought revealing its distinctive subtlety. The topics covered include Kierkegaard's views on art and religion, ethics and psychology, theology and politics, and knowledge and virtue. Much attention is devoted to the pervasive influence of Kierkegaard in twentieth-century philosophy. New readers will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Kierkegaard currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Kierkegaard.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Abbreviations	xiii
Introduction	1	(14)
Alastair Hannay
Gordon D. Marino
``Out with It!'': The modern breakthrough, Kierkegaard and Denmark	15	(33)
Bruce H. Kirmmse
The unknown Kierkegaard: Twentieth-century receptions	48	(28)
Roger Poole
Art in an age of reflection	76	(25)
George Pattison
Kierkegaard and Hegel	101	(24)
Merold Westphal
Neither either nor or: The perils of reflexive irony	125	(29)
Andrew Cross
Realism and antirealism in Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript	154	(23)
C. Stephen Evans
Existence, emotion, and virtue: Classical themes in Kierkegaard	177	(30)
Robert C. Roberts
Faith and the Kierkegaardian leap	207	(28)
M. Jamie Ferreira
Arminian edification: Kierkegaard on grace and free will	235	(22)
Timothy P. Jackson
``Developing'' Fear and Trembling	257	(25)
Ronald M. Green
Repetition: Getting the world back	282	(26)
Edward F. Mooney
Anxiety in The Concept of Anxiety	308	(21)
Gordon D. Marino
Kierkegaard and the variety of despair	329	(20)
Alastair Hannay
Kierkegaard's Christian ethics	349	(27)
Philip L. Quinn
Religious dialectics and Christology	376	(21)
Hermann Deuser
The utilitarian self and the ``useless'' passion of faith	397	(14)
Klaus-M. Kodalle
Bibliography	411	(10)
Index	421