The Humor of Kierkegaard : : An Anthology /

The Humor of Kierkegaard : : An Anthology / / Søren Kierkegaard; Thomas C. Oden.

Who might reasonably be nominated as the funniest philosopher of all time? With this anthology, Thomas Oden provisionally declares Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)--despite his enduring stereotype as the melancholy, despairing Dane--as, among philosophers, the most amusing. Kierkegaard not only e...

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VerfasserIn:
Kierkegaard, Søren,
HerausgeberIn:
Oden, Thomas C.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2004
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • The Human Condition
  • The Absurd
  • Vacillation
  • Beginning and Risking
  • Stages in Becoming Oneself
  • Aesthetic Existence
  • Ethical Existence
  • Religious Existence
  • Inwardness
  • Incongruities
  • Suffering
  • Finding and Losing Oneself
  • Death
  • Christianity
  • Becoming a Christian
  • Incarnation and Atonement
  • Offense and Paradox
  • Eternal Happiness in Time
  • Theology
  • God
  • Explaining Hegel to God
  • The Hazards of Regnant Theology
  • Immortality
  • "Christendom"
  • Sin
  • Prayer
  • The Status of Christianity within Modernity
  • The Bible
  • The Clergy
  • Repentance
  • Denmark
  • Relationships
  • The Hazards of Love
  • Love and Duty
  • Marriage and the Single State
  • The Vulnerability of the Male
  • The Strength of Woman
  • Children and Youth
  • Truth and Communication
  • Literary and Artistic Criticism
  • Comedy and Contradiction
  • Laughter as the Test of Truth
  • The Vocation of Authorship
  • The Culture of Modernity
  • The Present Age
  • Objective Knowledge and Science
  • Medicine
  • Authority and Establishment
  • World History
  • Sociological and Cultural Analysis
  • Cheap Talk on a Grand Scale
  • Journalism and the Press
  • Public Opinion and the Crowd
  • Advertising and Impression Management
  • Politics, Revolution, and Reform
  • Equality
  • Economics
  • Psychological Analysis
  • Behavior Change
  • Anxiety, Guilt, and Boredom
  • Contradictions within Academia
  • Education and the Universities
  • Philosophical Systems
  • Pure Thought
  • Doubt
  • Speculation and Idealism
  • Socrates
  • Teaching
  • Appendix: How Comic Episodes Correlate with the Stages
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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