Kierkegaard's Upbuilding Discourses: Philosophy, Literature, and Theology

by George Pattison

Overview

George Pattison provides a bold and innovative reassessment of Kierkegaard's neglected Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses and reading of his work as a whole. The first full length assessment of the discourses in English, this volume will be essential reading for philosophers and theologians, and anyone interested in Kierkegaard and the history of philosophy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415868310
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/09/2013
Series:	Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

George Pattison is Lecturer in the Faculty of Theology in Arhus University. He was previously Parish Priest and Dean of Chapel at King's College Cambridge. He has published and broadcast on theology, philosophy and the visual arts. His books include Kierkegaard: The Aesthetic and the Religion(SCM Press, 1999), The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to the Later Heidegger (Routledge, 2000) and A Short Course in the Philosophy of Religion (SCM Press, 2001).

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Kierkegaard's right hand; Chapter 2 The human condition; Chapter 3 Dialectics, phenomenology and the sublime; Chapter 4 Before God; Chapter 5 The language of upbuilding; Chapter 6 The rhetorics of the upbuilding discourses; Chapter 7 Building up love's ruins; Chapter 8 Love's witness;