Kierkegaard and the Quest for Unambiguous Life
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Kierkegaard and the Quest for Unambiguous Life by George Pattison
This book shows Kierkegaard's role in literary, religious, and political movements associated with romanticism, modernism and existentialism. It explores his background in romantic literature and his response to aspects of contemporary urban culture and goes on to show how his influence in the 20th century.
[a] rich cycle of essays.. lucid and illuminating * Daniel Watts, Times Literary Supplement *
George Pattison is Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and a Canon of Christ Church Cathedral. He has taught at the University of Aarhus and is a vising professor at the University of Copenhagen. For ten years he was Dean of Chapel at King's College, Cambridge and before that was a parish priest for 14 years. He studied at Edinburgh and Durham. He has written extensively on modern theology and philosophy of religion, with special emphasis on Kierkegaard and existentialism, including Heidegger and Dostoevsky, as well as on theology and the arts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199698677 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199698678 |
| Title | Kierkegaard and the Quest for Unambiguous Life |
| Author | George Pattison |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2013-01-10 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
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