Kierkegaardian Essays : : A Festschrift in Honour of George Pattison / / ed. by Clare Carlisle, Steven Shakespeare.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Barnett, Christopher B.,; Carlisle, Clare,; Dalferth, Ingolf,; Damgaard, Iben,; Garff, Joakim,; Khawaja, Noreen,; Kirkpatrick, Matthew D.,; Marino, Gordon,; Mulhall, Stephen,; Pyper, Hugh S.,; Rasmussen, Joel D. S.,; Shakespeare, Steven,; Welz, Claudia,; Whistler, Daniel,
• HerausgeberIn: Carlisle, Clare,; Shakespeare, Steven,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series , 31
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 218 p.)

Søren Kierkegaard argued that the most essential truths come to light by asking "How…?" This innovative collection of essays by leading scholars focuses on this questioning "How?", asking how we should relate to ourselves, to others, and to God; how we should be in the world; how we can become human. The result is a searching, original colloquium on what it means to be Kierkegaardian in the 21st century.The adjective "Kierkegaardian" names many possibilities: ways of philosophizing, choosing, loving, looking, listening, reading, writing, teaching, making art, praying, going to church – or not going to church. "How" gestures to subjectivity, one of Kierkegaard’s most fundamental philosophical categories, while "What" signals an objectifying line of thought. The authors of these essays suggest that the crucial Kierkegaardian question is not what we are and ought to do, but how we can remain true to the finitude, passivity, and ambiguity of human existence.While this Kierkegaardian "how" is often acknowledged by scholars, it is rarely thematized directly. Attending to it elicits new kinds of argument and reflection. Kierkegaardian Essays proposes a fresh approach to Kierkegaard, and is essential reading for experts and students alike.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- What Does It Mean to Be Human? -- Teach Us to Care and Not to Care -- Speculate Like a Kierkegaardian! -- The Riddle of Irony -- Interlude I: Wayward Intimacies -- A Smile From Every Child -- “Was It—Love?” “No, No, It Was Søren Kierkegaard” -- The Generous Eye -- On Love, Teaching, and Forgetting -- Interlude II: Summon the Earnest Thought of Death -- Vocation and the Voice of Conscience -- From the Lily and the Bird, Let us Learn: Nothing -- Melancholy and Modernity -- Why Kierkegaard? Seventy Theses, Declarations, and Expressions of Thanks -- About the Authors -- Index