Kierkegaard For Beginners

by PALMER, DONALD D.PALMER, DONALD D.

• ISBN13: 9781934389140
• ISBN10: 1934389145
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2007-08-21
• Publisher: For Beginners

Summary

Philosophically, Soren Kierkegaard was the "bridge" that led from Hegel to Existentialism. Kierkegaard abhorred Hegel's abstract, know-it-all idealism that tried to capture reality in a few words. Kierkegaard's attack on social and religious complacency and his single-handed assault on traditional Western philosophy generated a crisis that produced a radically new way of philosophizing and made him the founder of the school that would later be called Existentialism. To Kierkegaard, reality was personal, subjectiveit began and ended with the individualand philosophy was not something one merely talked about, it was the way you lived.Kierkegaard For Beginnersexplains, plainly and simply, the great Danish thinker's obsession with the particularity of human existence as well as his demonstration of how the creation of an authentic new kind of individual is possible.