Controverting Kierkegaard

by Løgstrup, K. E.; Fink, Hans; van Kooten Niekerk, Kees; Rabjerg, Bjørn; Stern, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780198874768
• ISBN10: 0198874766
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-08-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

K. E. Løgstrup

Robert Stern is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, where he has worked since 1989. He has published extensively on Kant, Hegel, and transcendental arguments, as well as on accounts of moral obligation. He has recently published the first monograph in English on Løgstrup, entitled The Radical Demand in Løgstrup's Ethics.

Bjørn Rabjerg is Assistant Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at Aarhus University, Denmark, where he has been since 2010. He holds a PhD in Systematic Theology and an MA in Philosophy. He has worked extensively on Løgstrup since 2004 and has been Head of the Løgstrup Archive at Aarhus University since 2013. His most recent publications have been on Løgstrup, Søren Kierkegaard, Martin Luther, and Karl Ove Knausgård.

Kees van Kooten Niekerk was formerly Associate Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Aarhus. He was in charge of the Løgstrup Archive and the editor of its newsletter between 2000 and 2013. He has published works on the relationship between theology and science, bioethics, and K. E. Løgstrup.

Hans Fink is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Aarhus. He is the co-editor of What Is Ethically Demanded?: K. E. Løgstrup's Philosophy of Moral Life (Notre Dame 2017, with Robert Stern).

Table of Contents

Translators' Preface
Acknowledgements
A Chronology of Løgstrup's Life
Introduction
German Foreword
Foreword
Part I: Christianity Without the Historical Jesus
1. The Christian Message is Derived from Paradoxicality, and Jesus's Proclamation and Works are not Integral to Christianity
2. The Question of the Occasion for Faith According to Kierkegaard
3. The Approximation Problem
4. An Alternative to Kierkegaard's View
5. The Paradoxicality
6. The Interpretation of the Crucifixion
7. Following Christ
Part II: Sacrifice
1. Suffering
2. Christianity and the Naturally Generated and Culturally Formed Communities
Part III: The Movement of Infinity
1. The Infinite Movement of Resignation
2. Taking Over Concrete Existence
3. The Abstract and Negative Self
4. Sartre's and Kierkegaard's Portrayal of Demonic Self-Enclosedness
5. The Absolute Good
6. Conformity and the Collision Between Faith in God and the Neighbour
7. The Sovereign Expressions of Life and the Question of the Freedom or Bondage of the Will
8. Taking Over the Situation Through the Sovereign Expressions of Life
9. How the Ethical Life of the People is Lost, Conformism, and How the Relation of Spirit is Doubled
10. Morality Is the Provision of Substitute Motives for Substitute Actions
11. The Levelling Down of Finitude
12. Consciousness of Guilt
13. Action and Attitude of Mind
Part IV: Nothingness
1. Knowledge as It Is Understood in Transcendental Philosophy, and Existence
2. The Synthesis Between Infinity and Finitude, Between Eternity and Temporality
3. The Doubling of the Relation of Spirit
4. Nothingness and Action
5. Knowledge and Reflection
Editors' Notes
Select Bibliography
Index