The Controversial Kierkegaard

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 10 nov. 1980 - 82 pagini
A widespread misapprehension of Søren Kierkegaard is that his concern for the individual and the individual's relation to the divine excluded any significant attention to social and political problems. In this volume Gregor Malantschuk, before his death one of the world's foremost Kierkegaard scholars, demonstrates the social dimension of Kierkegaard's thought - the relation between the individual and the state, the distinctive and complementary character of man and woman, his possible acquaintance with Marxist thought. The book shows Kierkegaard as an astute observer of the social and political situation of his time and underscores the differences between his presuppositions and those of the present day. The book is a translation of Den kontroversielle Kierkegaard together with two additional essays by Malantschuk.

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1 Political and Social Aspects of Kierkegaards Thought
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2 The Relevance of Fear and Trembling
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3 Kierkegaards View of Man and Woman
37
4 Assumptions and Perspectives
62
5 Did Kierkegaard Read Karl Marx?
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Pagina 32 - I— that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Pagina 27 - If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
Pagina 6 - A public is everything and nothing, the most dangerous of all powers and the most insignificant: one can speak to a whole nation in the name of the public and still the public will be less than a single real man however unimportant. The qualification "public...
Pagina 60 - I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.
Pagina 15 - It is only religion that can, with the help of eternity, carry human equality to the utmost limit — the godly, the essential, the non-worldly, the true, the only possible human equality. And therefore (be it said to its honour and glory) religion is the true humanity.* And one word more, if that be allowed me.
Pagina 24 - Why, then, does Abraham do it? For God's sake and — the two are wholly identical — for his own sake. He does it for God's sake because God demands this proof of his faith; he does it for his own sake so that he can prove it.
Pagina 36 - Once I am dead, Fear and Trembling alone will be enough for an imperishable name as an author. Then it will be read, translated into foreign languages as well.
Pagina 13 - The criticism of religion ends with the doctrine that man is the highest being for man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all conditions in which man is a degraded, enslaved, neglected, contemptible being...
Pagina 15 - policy is everything. Between this and the religious view the difference is heaven-wide (toto caelo), as also the point of departure and the ultimate aim differ from it toto caelo, since policy begins on earth and remains on earth, whereas religion, deriving its beginning from above, aims to transcend the earth and thereby exalt earth to heaven."7 In this passage Kierkegaard contrasts the Christian outlook with an outlook we have learned to call "secular.
Pagina 7 - But it is not of such matters I am speaking, nor have I ever concerned myself with such things. I am speaking about the ethical, about the ethicoreligious, about 'the truth", and I am affirming the untruth of the crowd, ethico-religiously regarded, when it is treated as...

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Gregor Malantschuk is the author of Kierkegaard’s Thought. Howard and Edna Hong have edited and translated Søren Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers, volume 1–7. Howard Hong is Editor-in-Chief of Kierkegaard’s Collected Works.

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