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Introducing Kierkegaard

  • Elena Akaevahas quoted3 years ago
    And finally, David Lodge’s Therapy (Penguin, 1996) is an amusing and moving novel about a successful but unhappy man who studies the works of Kierkegaard and finds them
  • Elena Akaevahas quoted3 years ago
    Jacques Derrida’s The Gift of Death,
  • Elena Akaevahas quoted3 years ago
    Kierkegaard wrote 35 books,
  • Elena Akaevahas quoted3 years ago
    The way he organized language was as important to him as what he had to say – another reason why reading Kierkegaard is always worthwhile. Most of us will read Kierkegaard for his extraordinary ideas and insights.
  • Elena Akaevahas quoted3 years ago
    Kierkegaard always maintained that he was an “author without authority”. He is our postmodern contemporary by recognizing that authorial meaning is “deferred”, “ironic” or “dialogic” – never permanently stable and never “closed”
  • Elena Akaevahas quoted3 years ago
    Logical concepts can tell you nothing about really important subjects – such as how to lead your life. Kierkegaard seems a typically postmodern anti-essentialist.
  • Elena Akaevahas quoted3 years ago
    Kierkegaard is praised today for being in line with the tradition of “anti-philosophers” which began with Socrates and currently ends with “postmodern” philosophy. Kierkegaard distrusted essentialist metaphysics.
  • Elena Akaevahas quoted3 years ago
    Karl Jaspers thought that Kierkegaard’s Christianity was too negative.
  • Elena Akaevahas quoted3 years ago
    THERE IS SOMETHING RATHER SUSPECT ABOUT “WILLED BELIEF” …
    BELIEF IS NOT A CONCLUSION BUT A RESOLUTION.
  • Elena Akaevahas quoted3 years ago
    Being a “Christian” is a life commitment to one’s personal relationship with God, not just passive obedience to a set of conventional rules and doctrines. A
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