Starting from Soren Kierkegaard's insight that fully accepting
the human condition requires one to live with the persistent
temptation to escape from it, Ronald Hall finds similar concerns
reflected in the work of two modern-day philosophers, Stanley
Cavell and Martha Nussbaum, who equally find in a philosophy of
love and marriage the key to understanding how humans may achieve
happiness in the acceptance of their humanity.
All three thinkers follow a "logic of paradox" in showing how
success in the human quest to be human depends crucially on the
struggle humans experience with the ever-present opportunities to
pursue alternative paths. What Kierkegaard called "living
existentially" can be achieved only after confronting and refusing
the possibilities of living in "aesthetic," "ethical," or even
"religious" denial of one's true humanity.
By creating this dialogue between the nineteenth-century Danish
thinker and two eminent twentieth-century philosophers, Hall
reveals the continuing relevance of Kierkegaard's thought to our
own age and its cogency as an interpretation of the human
predicament.
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