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Volume 2, Tome II: Kierkegaard and the Greek World - Aristotle and Other Greek Authors
352 Pages
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Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
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The articles in this volume employ source-work research to trace Kierkegaard's understanding and use of authors from the Greek tradition. A series of figures of varying importance in Kierkegaard's authorship are treated, ranging from early Greek poets to late Classical philosophical schools. In general it can be said that the Greeks collectively constitute one of the single most important body of... Read more
Contents: Part I Aristotle: Organon and Metaphysics IV: the first principles of logic and the debate about mediation, Håvard Løkke and Arild Waaler; Physics and Metaphysics: change, modal categories and agency, Håvard Løkke and Arild Waaler; Nichomachean Ethics: ignorance and relationships, Håvard Løkke; Poetics: the rebirth of tragedy at the end of modernity, Daniel Greenspan; Rhetoric: eloquence, faith and probability, Heiko Schulz; Cumulative Aristotle bibliography, Katalin Nun. Part II Other Greek Philosophers: Diogenes Laertius: Kierkegaard's source and inspiration, Nicolae Irina; The Eleatics: Kierkegaard's metaphysical considerations of being and motion, Jon Stewart; Heraclitus: Presocratic ideas of motion, change and opposites in Kierkegaard's thought, Finn Gredal Jensen; The Skeptics: Kierkegaard and classical skepticism, Anthony Rudd; The Sophists: Kierkegaard's interpretation of Socrates and the Sophists, K. Brian Söderquist; The Stoics: Kierkegaard on the passion for apathy, Rick Anthony Furtak. Part III Poets, Dramatists and Historians: Aeschylus: Kierkegaard and early Greek tragedy, Finn Gredal Jensen; Euripides: Kierkegaard and the ancient tragic heroes, Nicolae Irina; Herodotus: traces of The Histories in Kierkegaard's writings, Finn Gredal Jensen; Hesiod: Kierkegaard and the Greek gods, Nicolae Irina; Homer: Kierkegaard's use of the Homeric poems, Finn Gredal Jensen; Plutarch: a constant cultural reference, Nicolae Irina; Sophocles: the tragic of Kierkegaard's modern Antigone, Nicolae Irina; Indexes
Biography
Jon Stewart is an Associate Research Professor in the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
