Starting With Kierkegaard

by Sheil, Patrick

• ISBN13: 9781847065810
• ISBN10: 1847065813
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-21
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

A new introduction to Kierkegaard, guiding the student through the key concepts of his work by examining the overall development of his ideas.

Author Biography

Patrick Sheil read English and Modern Languages at King's College, Cambridge, where he then completed an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. on Kierkegaard and Levinas. His publications include Kierkegaard and Levinas: The Subjunctive Mood (Ashgate, 2010). He currently works as a news writer and web developer for Cambridgeshire County Council.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. x
Introduction, Historical Context and Biographical Outline	p. 1
Short Introduction: A Starting Place for Kierkegaard	p. 1
Biographical Outline	p. 6
Influences and Historical Context	p. 11
Central Themes and Key Motifs	p. 19
The Occasion and an Occasion for Starting	p. 19
Sin	p. 25
Self-Accusation	p. 30
Comparison	p. 32
Stillness	p. 37
The Multiplicity	p. 42
Immediacy	p. 48
The Varieties of Immediacy in Works from the Mid-1840s	p. 48
Immediacy and the Religious Follower	p. 54
Immediacy in The Sickness unto Death	p. 58
Ethics and Love	p. 66
In Search of the Ethical	p. 66
Starting with God	p. 72
How is It to be Done?	p. 79
Starting with My Wretchedness	p. 81
True Love is Wanting to be in the Wrong!	p. 86
Uneasy Participation	p. 89
Despair and Hope	p. 92
Despair in The Sickness unto Death	p. 92
Despair Leading into Hope	p. 101
Kierkegaard and Paul: Romans and Corinthians in Works of Love	p. 103
His Continuing Relevance: Community and the Individual	p. 110
The Impenitent Crowd	p. 110
Individuals and 'the Idea'	p. 115
Kierkegaard versus the Herd	p. 117
Denmark's a Prison	p. 119
Kierkegaard: Conservative Revolutionary	p. 122
Faith in Others as a Basis	p. 124
Community and Individuality	p. 129
Democracy and Equality	p. 133
Adorno's Critique	p. 136
Kierkegaard on the Offensive	p. 144
Alternative Endings	p. 149
Notes	p. 151
Bibliography	p. 164
Index	p. 170
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