The paradoxical rationality of Søren Kierkegaard /
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Author / Creator: | McCombs, Richard Phillip. |
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Imprint: | Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2013. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 244 pages). |
Language: | English |
Series: | Indiana series in the philosophy of religion Indiana series in the philosophy of religion. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11174352 |
Summary: | Richard McCombs presents Søren Kierkegaard as an author who deliberately pretended to be irrational in many of his pseudonymous writings in order to provoke his readers to discover the hidden and paradoxical rationality of faith. Focusing on pseudonymous works by Johannes Climacus, McCombs interprets Kierkegaardian rationality as a striving to become a self consistently unified in all its dimensions: thinking, feeling, willing, acting, and communicating. McCombs argues that Kierkegaard's strategy of feigning irrationality is sometimes brilliantly instructive, but also partly misguided. This fresh reading of Kierkegaard addresses an essential problem in the philosophy of religion--the relation between faith and reason. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 244 pages). |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-239) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780253006578 0253006570 0253006473 9780253006479 9781283979498 1283979497 |