Knights of Faith and Resignation: Reading Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
- ISBN-10
- 0791405729
- ISBN-13
- 9780791405727
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 216
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991-01-01
- Publisher
- SUNY Press
- Author
- Edward F. Mooney
Description
Knights of Faith and Resignation brings out the richness of Kierkegaard's creative invention, the contemporary relevance of his contrasts between resignation and faith, and his probing conceptual analysis of aesthetic, moral, and religious psychology and life-perspectives. And in tracing Kierkegaard's analysis of objectivity, subjectivity, virtue ethics, passion, dilemmas, commitment, and self-reflection, Mooney brings out a striking convergence between Kierkegaard and analytic philosophy -- the tradition of Socrates, Kant, and Wittgenstein, and its more contemporary practitioners, writers like Charles Taylor, Thomas Nagel, Stanley Cavell, Bernard Williams, and Harry Frankfurt.
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