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Soren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript has provoked a lively variety of divergent interpretations for a century and a half. It has been both celebrated and condemned as the chief inspiration for twentieth-century existential thought, as a subversive parody of philosophical argument, as a critique of mass society, as a forerunner of phenomenology and of postmodern relativism, and as an appeal for a renewal of religious commitment. These 2010 essays written by international Kierkegaard scholars offer a plurality of critical approaches to this fundamental text of existential philosophy. They cover hotly debated topics such as the tension between the Socratic-philosophical and the Christian-religious; the identity and personality of Kierkegaard's pseudonym 'Johannes Climacus'; his conceptions of paradoxical faith and of passionate understanding; his relation to his contemporaries and to some of his more distant predecessors; and, last but not least, his pertinence to our present-day concerns.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript'
• Subtitle: A Critical Guide
• Author: Rick Anthony Furtak
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780521897983
• ISBN: 052189798X
• ID: 04095957
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 564 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 159 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. July 2010

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