The Paradoxical Rationality of Søren Kierkegaard (Philosophy of Religion) - Hardcover

McCombs, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253006473 ISBN 13: 9780253006479

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Richard McCombs presents Søren Kierkegaard as an author who deliberately pretended to be irrational in many of his pseudonymous writings in order to provoke his readers to discover the hidden and paradoxical rationality of faith. Focusing on pseudonymous works by Johannes Climacus, McCombs interprets Kierkegaardian rationality as a striving to become a self consistently unified in all its dimensions: thinking, feeling, willing, acting, and communicating. McCombs argues that Kierkegaard's strategy of feigning irrationality is sometimes brilliantly instructive, but also partly misguided. This fresh reading of Kierkegaard addresses an essential problem in the philosophy of religion―the relation between faith and reason.

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About the Author

Richard McCombs teaches at St. John's College in Santa Fe.

Edition details

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253006473
• ISBN 13: 9780253006479
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264