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Controverting Kierkegaard
K E Løgstrup; Translated by Hans Fink, Kees van Kooten Niekerk; Edited by Bjørn Rabjerg, Robert Stern
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This is the first English edition of a major work by the Danish
philosopher and theologian K. E. Løgstrup (1905-81). It is the
culmination of his critical engagement with Kierkegaardianism,
which had begun almost 20 years earlier. In this text, Løgstrup
focuses on four main themes in Kierkegaard: his understanding of
Christ and thus of Christianity; his understanding of suffering in
human existence; Christian vs. secular ethics; and Platonistic
influences on Kierkegaard's position, which Løgstrup characterises
as nihilistic. Løgstrup presents his own alternative conception in
response: that Christ revealed universal ontological ethical
structures that put Christians and non-Christians on a par; that
suffering is a basic human experience and so there is no such thing
as a particular Christian suffering; that sovereign expressions of
life such as trust, sincerity, and compassion are the fundamental
phenomena of ethics that enable our lives to function, and are thus
given as a gift of creation, not of faith; and finally that human
existence as created is meaningful and holds value and so is not a
Kierkegaardian 'nothingness' of mere relativity. As well as
offering a classic and yet controversial critique of Kierkegaard,
this text also develops Løgstrup's conception of the sovereign
expressions of life, which was to become central to his later
ethics, further deepening his distinctive understanding of the
human condition. Here translated in full for the first time, it
will now be possible for English-speaking readers to explore the
issues that drew Løgstrup into his controversion with Kierkegaard.
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