Selves in Discord and Resolve - Kierkegaard's Moral-Religious Psychology From Either/Or to Sickness Unto Death (Hardcover)

Vastly underestimated by the very movements that claim Kierkegaard as a source, Kierkegaard presents a highly refined picture of the self in progress. In "Selves in Discord and Resolve," Edward Mooney examines the Wittgensteinian and deconstructive accounts of subjectivity to illuminate the rich legacy left by Kierkegaard's representation of the self in modes of self-understanding and self-articulation. Contending that Kierkegaard's philosophy poseses powerful alternatives to contemporary accounts of moral conviction in an uncertain world, Mooney situates Kierkegaard in the context of a post-Nietzschean crisis of individualism.
Mooney presents Kierkegaard as a psychologist, philosopher and poet dialectician. Drawing upon the work of Charles Taylor, and Thomas Nagel, Mooney evokes the Socratric influences on Kierkegaard's thinking and shows how Kierkegaard's philsophy relies upon the Socratic care for the soul. He examines Kierkegaard's work on Judge Wilhelm, from "Either/Or," Socrates, in the "Postscript" and Abraham and Job in "Repetition" and "Fear and Trembling." Tying the complex and interwoven strands of Kierkegaard's thought together, Edward Mooney's paints a compelling portrait of the self--in discord and resolve. Wihelm on Kierkegaard's conception of civic virtue, and provides an enlightening exposition of the different readings of Kierkegaard.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 1996
First published:	1996
Authors:	Edward Mooney
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	156
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-91369-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies
LSN:	0-415-91369-1
Barcode:	9780415913690

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