Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity (Studies in Continental Thought) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253209676 ISBN 13: 9780253209672

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1995

Synopsis

This volume represents a fine assessment of the continuing applicability of Kierkegaard's thought for the 21st century."-The Reader's Review Matustik and Westphal have set some agile minds to the task of drawing out the threads of Kierkegaard's influence on postmodern and contemporary philosophy, from gender to politics and from Buber to Derrida." -Choice ... Usefully and effectively establishes Kierkegaard as a living presence in contemporary thought. It will help students of Kierkegaard attend to aspects of his thought that have eluded their attention, and it will challenge those engaged with contemporary continental philosophy not to shelter themselves from the provocations and interrogrations still uncomfortably pressing in Kierkegaard's writings." -International Philosophical Quarterly The standard of the essays and the calibre of the contributors are uniformly high. This is indeed one of the better collections relating to Kierkegaard published in recent years, and should do much to extend discussion of his work..." -Modern Believing ... a text of immense significance and value.... As a research tool it will surely prove indispensable." -Soren Kierkegaard Newsletter It will be a helpful supplementary areading for teaching... the contemporary readings of Kierkegaard introduced here continue to reveal new and more exciting depths to his extraordinary philosophy." -Teaching Philosophy These essays engage Kierkegaard in conversation with critical social theory and postmodern thought. Covering a diversity of themes, this collection still reflects consensus-Kierkegaard is to be taken seriously as a philosopher at the turn of the twenty-first century.

About this title

Synopsis:

Placed in dialogue with Buber, Derrida, Freud, Gadamer, Habermas, Heidegger, Irigaray, Kristeva, Levinas, Sartre, and Wittgenstein, Soren Kierkegaard emerges as a vital participant in some of the liveliest controversies in modern philosophy. While some of the essays included here establish Kierkegaard's relevance to the postmodern critique of logocentrism, others emphasize his contributions to critical social theory. Religious issues are often front and center, but several contributors bring their feminist concerns into the dialogue, sometimes with surprising results. Despite the diversity of themes, this collection reflects consensus - Kierkegaard is to be taken seriously as a philosopher at the turn of the twenty-first century. The contributors are: Wanda Warren Berry, Alison Leigh Brown, John D. Caputo, Stephen N. Dunning, C. Stephen Evans, J rgen Habermas, Patricia J. Huntington, Tamsin Lorraine, James L. Marsh, Martin J. Matust'k, William L. McBride, Robert L. Perkins, Robert C. Roberts, Calvin O. Schrag, and Merold Westphal.

About the Author:

MARTIN J. MATUSTIK is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University and author of Postnational Identity: Critical Theory and Existential Philosophy in Habermas, Kierkegaard, and Havel. MEROLD WESTPHAS is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. His books include God, Guilt, and Death: An Existential Phenomenology of Religion, and Suspicion and Faith: The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0253209676
• ISBN 13: 9780253209672
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Matuštík Martin Beck, Westphal Merold