Kierkegaard by Vivaldi Jean-Marie

Kierkegaard by Vivaldi Jean-Marie

Kierkegaard is an exegetical interpretation of S ren Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments and Concluding Unscientific Postscript. Vivaldi Jean-Marie elaborates on the philosophical and religious arguments of the pseudonym Johannes Climacus to demonstrate that history is propatory toward the achievement of eternal happiness. The author emphasizes Kierkegaard's heritage in the Post-Kantian tradition by discussing his critique of the Romantics and German Idealists. The exposition of Philosophical Fragments and Concluding Unscientific Postscript is carried out on the basis of the ongoing conversation between Climacus and the Post-Kantian tradition to argue that Climacus wishes to show the limitation of history and philosophy and the necessity of subjective appropriation to transcend the shortcoming of history and philosophy. Climacus's assessment of the prevailing Christian attitudes of the 19th century maps out the possibility of subjective religious experience in freedom.

This book presents a fairly straightforward reading of Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments and Concluding Unscientific PostscriptJean-Marie provides a light contextualization of the arguments of these difficult works, clarifying Kierkegaard's engagement with German Idealism and specifically with Lessing, Kant and Hegel. The book will be useful for novice readers of Kierkegaard. * Religious Studies Review, December 2009 *

Vivaldi Jean-Marie is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Medgar Evers College of CUNY in Brooklyn, New York.

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Title	Kierkegaard
Author	Vivaldi Jean-Marie
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University Press of America
Year published	2008-09-17
Number of pages	142
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