Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript: A Critical Guide (Cambridge Critical Guides)

Rick Anthony Furtak

ISBN 10: 1107411408 / ISBN 13: 9781107411401

Published by Cambridge University Press 2012-10-25, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript: A Critical Guide (Cambridge Critical Guides)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2012-10-25
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107411408
• ISBN 13: 9781107411401
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Søren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript has provoked a lively variety of divergent interpretations for a century and a half. It has been both celebrated and condemned as the chief inspiration for twentieth-century existential thought, as a subversive parody of philosophical argument, as a critique of mass society, as a forerunner of phenomenology and of postmodern relativism, and as an appeal for a renewal of religious commitment. These 2010 essays written by international Kierkegaard scholars offer a plurality of critical approaches to this fundamental text of existential philosophy. They cover hotly debated topics such as the tension between the Socratic-philosophical and the Christian-religious; the identity and personality of Kierkegaard's pseudonym 'Johannes Climacus'; his conceptions of paradoxical faith and of passionate understanding; his relation to his contemporaries and to some of his more distant predecessors; and, last but not least, his pertinence to our present-day concerns.

Review

'One of the most noteworthy features of Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript': A Critical Guide is that it lives up to its subtitle. This collection truly is a guide to the work as a whole ... [It] contains significant steps forward in our understanding of this complex text, the difficulty of which continues to reward the sharpest critical study.' Jeffrey Hanson, Australian Catholic University