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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458790703321

Autore

Sheil Patrick

Titolo

Starting with Kierkegaard [[electronic resource] /] / Patrick Sheil

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2011

ISBN

1-283-01574-9

9786613015747

1-4411-3004-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Collana

Starting with

Disciplina

198/.9

Soggetti

Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION, HISTORICAL CONTEXT AND BIOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE; CHAPTER 2: CENTRAL THEMES AND KEY MOTIFS; CHAPTER 3: IMMEDIACY; CHAPTER 4: ETHICS AND LOVE; CHAPTER 5: DESPAIR AND HOPE; CHAPTER 6: HIS CONTINUING RELEVANCE: COMMUNITY AND THE INDIVIDUAL; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Søren Kierkegaard was one of the most important European philosophers of the nineteenth-century and is widely regarded as the founder of existentialism. His work had a profound influence on some of the main intellectual currents of the last two centuries. Clearly and thematically structured, with investigations into a host of Kierkegaard's key conceptsGÇöincluding 'immediacy', 'sin', 'despair', 'individuality' and 'the crowd'GÇöand with references to a wide range of his works, Starting with Kierkegaard provides the reader with a balanced overview of the Danish philosopher's project, paying as