| Description |
304 pages |
| Contents |
Preface -- Kierkegaard the man -- Sketch of his life -- His early intellectual attitude -- The spheres of existence and the romantic outlook -- The use of pseudonyms -- The spheres of existence -- "The acoustics of the romantic souls" -- The ethical view and its limits -- Kiekegaard's approach to ethics -- The ethical revaluation of esthetic life -- The ethical choice and the final end -- The confines of the ethical view -- The attack upon Hegelianism -- What Kierkegaard knew about Hegelianism -- The anti-Hegelian strain in the esthetic works -- Spurious pillars of wisdom -- The meaning of existence -- Existential knowledge of God -- Existence and the subjective thinker -- Existence and religious transcendence -- Faith and the historicity of existence -- The nature of the human individual -- The place of the individual in Kierkegaard's thought -- Political and social criticism -- Equality and the individual -- Humanism and Christianity -- Becoming a Christian in Christendom -- Convergence on the problem of Christianity -- The situation of being in Christendom -- "First, severity: then, gentleness" -- Becoming contemporaneous with Christ -- Education in religious existence -- Kierkegaard and Christian philosophy -- The starting point of cognition -- The modes of being -- Speculative and systematic knowledge -- The whole man -- Faith and reason -- Bibliographical note -- Bibliographical supplement -- Notes -- Index. |
| Bibliography |
"Bibliographical note": pages 269-273. |
| Subject |
Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.
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