To Will One Thing: Reflections on Kierkegaard's "Purity of Heart" - Hardcover

Walker, Jeremy Desmond Bromhead

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773500847 ISBN 13: 9780773500846

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1973

Synopsis

[Kierkegaard, Soeren] Walker, Jeremy Desmond Bromhead. To Will One Thing - Reflections on Kierkegaard's 'Purity of Heart'. Montreal/ London, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1972. 21cm. X,167 pages. Original hardcover with illustrated hardcover in Protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (5 May 1813 - 11 November 1855) was a Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher.He wrote critical texts on organized religion, Christendom, morality, ethics, psychology, and the philosophy of religion, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and parables. Much of his philosophical work deals with the issues of how one lives as a single individual, giving priority to concrete human reality over abstract thinking and highlighting the importance of personal choice and commitment.He was against literary critics who defined idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, and thought that Swedenborg, Hegel, Goethe, Fichte, Schelling, Schlegel and Hans Christian Andersen were all understood far too quickly by scholars.Kierkegaard's theological work focuses on Christian ethics, the institution of the Church, the differences between purely objective proofs of Christianity, the infinite qualitative distinction between man and God, and the individual's subjective relationship to the God-Man Jesus the Christ, which came through faith. (Wikipedia)

About this edition

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0773500847
• ISBN 13: 9780773500846
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176