Kierkegaard : a guide for the perplexed / Clare Carlisle.

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Published: London ; New York : Continuum, c2006.
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Series:Guides for the perplexed
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Format: Book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Kierkegaard's life and works
  • Kierkegaard : a brief biography
  • Parallels between Kierkegaard's life and philosophy
  • Who is the 'real' Kierkegaard?
  • 2. The question of communication
  • Indirect communication
  • Kierkegaard's pseudonyms
  • Writing against philosophy
  • 3. Kierkegaard's critique of Hegel
  • Hegel's philosophy : rationalism, history, reconciliation
  • Hegelian philosophy in Denmark
  • Either/Or : Kierkegaard's critique of Hegel
  • 4. Subjectivity and truth
  • Concluding unscientific postscript : the truth of Christianity
  • The aesthetic, the ethical and the religious
  • Kierkegaard's spheres of existence
  • 5. The problem of sin
  • What is sin?
  • The concept of anxiety : the psychology of sin
  • The sickness unto death : sin and despair
  • 6. Fear and trembling : faith beyond reason
  • Introducing the story of Abraham
  • Responding to suffering : resignation and faith
  • Abraham and ethics - three problems
  • 7. Philosophical fragments : the paradox of Christianity
  • Socrates, Hegel and Christianity
  • Climacus's paradox : how can truth be learnt?
  • Faith and history.