The paradoxical rationality of Søren Kierkegaard / / Richard McCombs
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| Autore: |
McCombs Richard Phillip
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| Titolo: |
The paradoxical rationality of Søren Kierkegaard / / Richard McCombs
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| Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, Ind., : Indiana University Press, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 198/.9 |
| Soggetto topico: | Faith and reason - Christianity |
| Philosophical theology | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-239) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | A pretense of irrationalism -- Paradoxical rationality -- Reverse theology -- The subtle power of simplicity -- A critique of indirect communication -- The figure of Socrates and the climacean capacity of paradoxical reason -- The figure of Socrates and the downfall of paradoxical reason -- The proof of paradoxical reason. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Richard McCombs presents Søren Kierkegaard as an author who deliberately pretended to be irrational in many of his pseudonymous writings in order to provoke his readers to discover the hidden and paradoxical rationality of faith. Focusing on pseudonymous works by Johannes Climacus, McCombs interprets Kierkegaardian rationality as a striving to become a self consistently unified in all its dimensions: thinking, feeling, willing, acting, and communicating. McCombs argues that Kierkegaard's strategy of feigning irrationality is sometimes brilliantly instructive, but also partly misguided. This |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The paradoxical rationality of Søren Kierkegaard |
| ISBN: | 0-253-00657-0 |
| 1-283-97949-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813545403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion