The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard

Accessible guide to Kierkegaard available serving as a reference to students and non-specialists.

Alastair Hannay (Edited by), Gordon Daniel Marino (Edited by)

9780521477192, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 October 1997

450 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.7 kg

'While there has been a steady proliferation of edited volumes published on all aspects of Kierkegaard's oeuvre throughout this Renaissance period, Alastair Hannah's and Gordon Marino's The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard is especially impressive and noteworthy.' Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain

Each volume of this series of Companions to major philosophers contains specially-commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. The contributors to this Companion probe the full depth of Kierkegaard's thought revealing its distinctive subtlety. The topics covered include Kierkegaard's views on art and religion, ethics and psychology, theology and politics, and knowledge and virtue. Much attention is devoted to the pervasive influence of Kierkegaard in twentieth-century philosophy. New readers will find this the a convenient and accessible guide to Kierkegaard. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Kierkegaard.

Introduction Alastair Hannay and Gordon D. Marino
1. Out with it: the modern breakthrough, Kierkegaard and Denmark Bruce H. Kirmmse
2. The unknown Kierkegaard: twentieth-century receptions Roger Poole
3. Art in an age of reflection George Pattison
4. Kierkegaard and Hegel Merold Westphal
5. Neither either nor or: the perils of self-irony Andrew Cross
6. Realism and anti-realism in Kierkegaard's concluding unscientific postscript C. Stephen Evans
7. Existence, emotion, and virtue: classical themes in Kierkegaard Robert C. Roberts
8. Faith and the Kierkegaardian leap M. Jamie Ferreira
9. Arminian edification: Kierkegaard on grace and free will Timothy P. Jackson
10. Developing fear and trembling Ronald M. Green
11. Repetition: getting the world back Edward F. Mooney
12. Anxiety in the Concept of Anxiety Gordon D. Marino
13. Kierkegaard and the Variety of Despair Alastair Hannay
14. Kierkegaard's Christian ethics Philip L. Quinn
15. Religious dialectics and christology Hermann Deuser
16. The utilitarian self and the 'useless' passion of faith Klaus-M. Kodalle.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 [HPCD]