Kierkegaard (Blackwell Great Minds) - Softcover

Ferreira, M. Jamie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405142782 ISBN 13: 9781405142786

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

Synopsis

Offers a comprehensive introduction that covers the entire span of Kierkegaard's authorship. Thsi title explores how the two strands of his writing-religious discourses and pseudonymous literary creations-influenced each other. It employs a 'how to' approach to help the reader discover individual texts on their own.

About this title

Review:

"This work is an insightful introduction by one of Kierkegaard's foremost interpreters. Ferreira introduces readers to Kierkegaard by introducing them to Kierkegaard's texts, and she does so with sensitivity and grace. A remarkable achievement." "Professor C. Stephen Evans, Baylor University"

"Jamie Ferreira's 'Kierkegaard' is clearly written, pedagogically sensitive, and informed by the best current research. It offers teachers, researchers and first-time readers a reliable guide to the whole Kierkegaard, including his edifying and religious works." "Professor George Pattison, University of Oxford"

"Jamie Ferreira has accomplished what I myself would find impossible: She has written an intellectual introduction to Kierkegaard that is accessible to the general reader. Her book provides a comprehensive account of the content of Kierkegaard's writings and captures the spirit of his work. In short, she strikes a felicitous balance between what and how Kierkegaard thought."" Niels Jorgen Cappelorn, Soren Kierkegaard Research Center, University of Copenhagen"

From the Back Cover:

This introduction to the writings of Søren Kierkegaard is for anyone who has felt daunted by the prospect of reading and understanding the work of one of the most important yet elusive 19th century thinkers. Kierkegaard scholar M. Jamie Ferreira sets out to make the Danish philosopher's work accessible with a unique and innovative "how to" approach, guiding readers through his works and showing how he thought, rather than simply what he thought.

Kierkegaard is the first detailed introduction to his entire body of work, illustrating how literary, philosophical, theological, and psychological influences coincide in both the religious and pseudonymous (philosophical) works. Ferreira highlights the literary strategies Kierkegaard employed to awaken and challenge the reader and observes that the two very different arcs of his writing are nevertheless inexorably intertwined, rather than merely parallel, exerting a dramatic and dynamic influence on one other.

The result is an extraordinary text, suitable for accompanying the new reader of the primary works but with many things to offer those returning to them.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1405142782
• ISBN 13: 9781405142786
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216