Essential Kierkegaard

Essential Kierkegaard
The selections are carefully chosen to reflect the unique character of Kierkegaard's work, with its shifting pseudonyms, its complex dialogues, and its potent combination of irony, satire, sermon, polemic, humor, and fiction. We see the esthetic, ethical, and ethical-religious ways of life initially presented as dialogue in two parallel series of pseudonymous and signed works and later in the "second authorship" as direct address. And we see the themes that bind the whole together, in particular Kierkegaard's overarching concern with, in his own words, "What it means to exist; ...what it means to be a human being." Together, the selections provide the best available introduction to Kierkegaard's writings and completely than any other book why his work, in all its creativity, variety, and power, continues to speak so directly today to so many readers around the world.
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The selections are carefully chosen to reflect the unique character of Kierkegaard's work, with its shifting pseudonyms, its complex dialogues, and its potent combination of irony, satire, sermon, polemic, humor, and fiction. We see the esthetic, ethical, and ethical-religious ways of life initially presented as dialogue in two parallel series of pseudonymous and signed works and later in the "second authorship" as direct address. And we see the themes that bind the whole together, in particular Kierkegaard's overarching concern with, in his own words, "What it means to exist; ...what it means to be a human being." Together, the selections provide the best available introduction to Kierkegaard's writings and completely than any other book why his work, in all its creativity, variety, and power, continues to speak so directly today to so many readers around the world.
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- Categoria: Modern
- Categoria: General
- Categoria: Existentialism
- Categoria: Religious
- Format: 158 x 233 x 29 mm
- An aparitie: 2000
- Nr. pagini: 536 Afiseaza mai mult