1st Edition
Volume 11, Tome II: Kierkegaard's Influence on Philosophy Francophone Philosophy
Edited By Jon Stewart
Copyright 2012
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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Kierkegaard's relation to the field of philosophy is a particularly complex and disputed one. He rejected the model of philosophical inquiry that was mainstream in his day and was careful to have his pseudonymous authors repeatedly disassociate themselves from philosophy. But although it seems clear that Kierkegaard never regarded himself as a philosopher, there can be no doubt that his writings... Read more
Contents: Sylviane Agacinski: reading Kierkegaard to keep intact the secret, Kevin Newmark; Roland Barthes: style, language, silence, Joseph Westfall; Georges Bataille: Kierkegaard and the claim for the sacred, Laura Llevadot; Maurice Blanchot: spaces of literature/spaces of religion, Daniel Greenspan; Gilles Deleuze: Kierkegaard's presence in his writings, José Miranda Justo; Jacques Derrida: faithful heretics, Marius Timmann Mjaaland; Jacques Ellul: Kierkegaard's profound and seldom acknowledged influence on Ellul's writing, Sarah Pike Cabral; Pierre Hadot: philosophy as a way of life: Hadot and Kierkegaard's Socrates, Nicolae Irina; Emmanuel Levinas: an ambivalent but decisive reception, Jeffrey Hanson; Jean-Luc Marion: the paradoxical givenness of love, Leo Stan; Paul Ricoeur: on Kierkegaard, the limits of philosophy, and the consolation of hope, Joel D.S. Rasmussen; Indexes.
Biography
Jon Stewart is an Associate Research Professor in the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
'... one of the virtues of this collection is to catalogue the immense diversity of readings of Kierkegaard among a couple of generations of French thinkers...' H-France 'A brilliant example of scholarship, this well-referenced collection will appeal to specialists.' French Review
