Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes
Author: Paul Strathern
Publisher: Philosophers in 90 Minutes
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13:
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Kierkegaard: Philosophy in an Hour
Author: Paul Strathern
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2012-07-05
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 0007466277
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Heidegger in 90 Minutes
Author: Paul Strathern
Publisher: Philosophers in 90 Minutes
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13:
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Spinoza in 90 Minutes
Author: Paul Strathern
Publisher: Philosophers in 90 Minutes Series
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 98
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On Søren Kierkegaard
Author: Edward F. Mooney
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 135191376X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tracing a path through Kierkegaard's writings, this book brings the reader into close contact with the texts and purposes of this remarkable 19th century Danish writer and thinker. Kierkegaard writes in a number of voices and registers: as a sharp observer and critic of Danish culture, or as a moral psychologist, and as a writer concerned to evoke the religious way of life of Socrates, Abraham, or a Christian exemplar. In developing these themes, Mooney sketches Kierkegaard's Socratic vocation, gives a close reading of several central texts, and traces 'The Ethical Sublime' as a recurrent theme. He unfolds an affirmative relationship between philosophy and theology and the potentialities for a religiousness that defies dogmatic creeds, secular chauvinisms, and restrictive philosophies.
The Quotable Kierkegaard
Author: Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2013-10-27
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0691155305
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The most comprehensive and authoritative collection of Kierkegaard quotations ever published "Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven—in the spring at the earth."—Søren Kierkegaard The father of existentialism, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a philosopher who could write like an angel. With only a sentence or two, he could plumb the depths of the human spirit. In this collection of some 800 quotations, the reader will find dazzling bon mots next to words of life-changing power. Drawing from the authoritative Princeton editions of Kierkegaard's writings, this book presents a broad selection of his wit and wisdom, as well as a stimulating introduction to his life and work. Organized by topic, this volume covers notable Kierkegaardian concerns such as anxiety, despair, existence, irony, and the absurd, but also erotic love, the press, busyness, and the comic. Here readers will encounter both well-known quotations ("Life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other principle, that it must be lived forward") and obscure ones ("Beware false prophets who come to you in wolves' clothing but inwardly are sheep--i.e., the phrasemongers"). Those who spend time in these pages will discover the writer who said, "my grief is my castle," but who also taught that "the best defense against hypocrisy is love." Illuminating and delightful, this engaging book also provides a substantial portrait of one of the most influential of modern thinkers. Gathers some 800 quotations Drawn from the authoritative Princeton editions of Kierkegaard's writings Includes an introduction, a brief account and timeline of Kierkegaard's life, a guide to further reading, and an index
Kant in 90 Minutes
Author: Paul Strathern
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Published: 1996-09-01
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 1461709822
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The Portable Kierkegaard
Author: Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2009-02
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1897406061
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Author: Paul Strathern
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Published: 2000-11-10
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 1461662370
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How to Misunderstand Kierkegaard
Author: Stuart Dalton
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2022-09-27
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1666725722
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is an attempt to write about Kierkegaard's philosophy in the style of Kierkegaard's philosophy: energetic, playful, free spirited, surprising, and joyous. It is a deliberately crumby book in the sense that it seeks out the fragments, scraps, and crumbs of philosophical arguments that are generally ignored or swept away, like so much rubbish, but that are actually the most interesting parts of the meal. The Anti-Assistant-Professor Method that this book follows adopts Kierkegaard's many excellent jokes about assistant professors as a guide to how not to write about Kierkegaard's philosophy; specifically: - Don't cease to be human. - Don't be a parasite, merely feeding off other people's creations and never creating anything new. - Don't reduce or simplify or systematize Kierkegaard's ideas in order to make life easier for everyone (because that was never the point). - Don't kill Kierkegaard's philosophy by lecturing on it, thereby turning it into a collection of dead ideas for nonhumans rather than subjective truths that need to be lived. Following these guidelines, the book attempts to extend and amplify some of Kierkegaard's most important ideas in a way that combats the persistent problem of nihilism--a disease that even Kierkegaard succumbed to at the end of his life.
