
Excursions with Kierkegaard
Others, Goods, Death, and Final Faith
Edward F. Mooney(Author)
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Publisher)
Published on 14. February 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-4411-9034-5 (ISBN)
Description
Noted Kierkegaard scholar Edward Mooney guides the reader through the major themes of the Danish philosopher's life and thought. Each chapter frames a striking issue, usually encapsulated in a short passage from Kierkegaard, and pursues it directly and deeply.
Kierkegaard speaks to our need for self-understanding, our need to negotiate the tensions between surprisingly subtle capacities for communication and surprisingly easy descent into cliches and banality. The chapter of this book follow and re-animate Kierkegaard's brilliant and humorous discussions of death and authenticity, of the maternal and paternal in faith and self-transformations, of self-deception and obsessive judgmentalism, of love and the search for stable centers, of subjectivity as refinement of responsiveness to others, the world, and all we can value. These evocative explications aim to match his stride in tracking deep human concerns that evade academic and cultural pigeonholes. Like Hamlet, Kierkegaard gives us a "poem unlimited" that is open to endless reflection. Mooney's aim is to bring his matchless impulse and aspiration once more to life.
Kierkegaard speaks to our need for self-understanding, our need to negotiate the tensions between surprisingly subtle capacities for communication and surprisingly easy descent into cliches and banality. The chapter of this book follow and re-animate Kierkegaard's brilliant and humorous discussions of death and authenticity, of the maternal and paternal in faith and self-transformations, of self-deception and obsessive judgmentalism, of love and the search for stable centers, of subjectivity as refinement of responsiveness to others, the world, and all we can value. These evocative explications aim to match his stride in tracking deep human concerns that evade academic and cultural pigeonholes. Like Hamlet, Kierkegaard gives us a "poem unlimited" that is open to endless reflection. Mooney's aim is to bring his matchless impulse and aspiration once more to life.
Reviews / Votes
Mooney's voice is a unique one in Kierkegaard studies, attentive and intimate, restless and affirmative, perhaps even a peculiarly American voice, the Dane by way of Whitman and Melville and Emerson. [...] Mooney's soliloquies speak deeply about pain and loss and Kierkegaardian resources for coping with suffering without trivializing it, but there is not much vocabulary of sin or salvation [...] Mooney's Kierkegaard is human and comforting, and that is a vitally important aspect of the work to keep alive. -- Jeffrey Hanson, Australian Catholic University * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
312 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-9034-5 (9781441190345)
DOI
CBID168356
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Person
Edward F. Mooney is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Syracuse University, USA. He is the author or editor of eight books, including Kierkegaard's Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs
(Editor and Introduction, Oxford World Classics, 2009), On Soren Kierkegaard (Ashgate, 2007), Ethics, Love, and Faith in Kierkegaard: A Philosophical Engagement (Indiana University Press, 2008), Selves in Discord and Resolve: Kierkegaard's Moral-Religious Psychology from Either/Or to Sickness Unto Death (Routledge, 1996), and Knights of Faith and Resignation: Reading Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling (State University of New York Press, 1991).
(Editor and Introduction, Oxford World Classics, 2009), On Soren Kierkegaard (Ashgate, 2007), Ethics, Love, and Faith in Kierkegaard: A Philosophical Engagement (Indiana University Press, 2008), Selves in Discord and Resolve: Kierkegaard's Moral-Religious Psychology from Either/Or to Sickness Unto Death (Routledge, 1996), and Knights of Faith and Resignation: Reading Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling (State University of New York Press, 1991).
Author
Emeritus Professor of Religion and PhilosophySyracuse University, USA
Content
Introduction / 1. On Self, Others, Goods, Final Faith / 2. On the Mysterious Agency of Death / 3. On Inwardness as Interpersonal / 4. On Style, Genre, Pseudonyms / 5. On Authenticity / 6. On Mirrors, Morality, and Love / 7. On Philosophical Crumbs / 8. On the Maternal: Fear and Trembling as Urtext / 9. On Faith that Defeats Self-Deception / 10. On the Aspiration to Ordinary Subjectivity / Appendix: Erickson, Kristeva, Kierkegaard / Bibliography / Index