1st Edition
Volume 5, Tome I: Kierkegaard and the Renaissance and Modern Traditions - Philosophy
Edited By Jon Stewart
Copyright 2009
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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The long period from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century supplied numerous sources for Kierkegaard's thought in any number of different fields. The present, rather heterogeneous volume covers the long period from the birth of Savonarola in 1452 through the beginning of the nineteenth century and into Kierkegaard's own time. The Danish thinker read authors representing vastly different... Read more
Contents: Preface; Pierre Bayle; Kierkegaard's use of the Historical and Critical Dictionary, Karl Verstrynge; René Descartes: Kierkegaard's understanding of doubt and certainty, Anders Moe Rasmussen; David Hume: Kierkegaard and Hume on reason, faith, and the ethics of philosophy, Thomas Miles; Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi: 2 theories of the leap, Anders Moe Rasmussen; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: traces of Kierkegaard's reading of the Theodicy, HÃ¥vard Løkke and Arild Waaler; Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: appropriating the testimony of a theological naturalist, Curtis L. Thompson; Michel de Montaigne: the vulnerability of sources in estimating Kierkegaard's study of Essais, Søren Landkildehus; Blaise Pascal: Kierkegaard and Pascal as kindred spirits in the fight against Christendom, Søren Landkildehus; Jean-Jacques Rousseau: presence and absence, Vincent A. McCarthy; Baruch de Spinoza: questioning transcendence, teleology and truth, Clare Carlisle; Indexes.
Biography
Jon Stewart is an Associate Research Professor in the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
