Edward F. Mooney takes us into the lived philosophies of Melville, Kierkegaard, Henry Bugbee, and others who write deeply in ways that bring philosophy and religion into the fabric of daily life, in its simplicities, crises, and moments of communion and joy. Along the way Mooney explores meditations on wilderness, on the enigma of self-deception, the role of maternal love and the pain of separations, and the pervasiveness of "difficult reality" where valuable things are presented to us under two (or more) aspects at once.

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.

Imagine the hours and weeks after you've witnessed a school shooting. You run the emotional gamut between disorientation and severe anxiety. When you return to the classroom, you're unsure how to cope. Your classroom used to be a safe space; is it still? In this book, the experience of two teachers before, during and after they witnessed school shootings are analyzed to determine the effects of these incidents on their lives. In one case, a teacher who observed a shooting of one student by another, struggled with severe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Her issues, along with actions by school administration, led to her psychological disability. In the second case, at a different school, another teacher watched a gunman randomly firing at students; he was able to continue teaching. A comparison helps to understand the psychological and organizational factors that affect educators who witnessed a school shooting. This book would be critical in courses training school administrators, and for those teaching graduate research courses. In addition, this would be useful for mental health professionals and emergency responders seeking to get a glimpse into what teachers who witness school shootings are going through.

This work examines the existentialist, Wittgensteinian, deconstructive, and post-analytical 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 poses powerful alternatives to contemporary accounts of moral conviction in an uncertain world, the author situates Kierkegaard in the context of a post-Nietzchean crisis of individualism. Kierkegaard is presented as a psychologist, philosopher, poet, dialectician, existentialist and "post-analytical" philosopher. Drawing upon the work of Charles Taylor and Thomas Nagel, Mooney evokes the Socratic influences on Kierkegaard's thinking and shows how Kierkegaard's philosophy relies upon the notion of Socratic care for the soul.

Edward F. Mooney takes us into the lived philosophies of Melville, Kierkegaard, Henry Bugbee, and others who write deeply in ways that bring philosophy and religion into the fabric of daily life, in its simplicities, crises, and moments of communion and joy. Along the way Mooney explores meditations on wilderness, on the enigma of self-deception, the role of maternal love and the pain of separations, and the pervasiveness of "difficult reality" where valuable things are presented to us under two (or more) aspects at once.