Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript': A Critical Guide

Soren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript has provoked a lively variety of divergent interpretations for a century and a half.

It has been both celebrated and condemned as the chief inspiration for twentieth-century existential thought, as a subversive parody of philosophical argument, as a critique of mass society, as a forerunner of phenomenology and of postmodern relativism, and as an appeal for a renewal of religious commitment.

These new essays written by international Kierkegaard scholars offer a plurality of critical approaches to this fundamental text of existential philosophy.

They cover hotly debated topics such as the tension between the Socratic-philosophical and the Christian-religious; the identity and personality of Kierkegaard's pseudonym 'Johannes Climacus'; his conceptions of paradoxical faith and of passionate understanding; his relation to his contemporaries and to some of his more distant predecessors; and, last but not least, his pertinence to our present-day concerns.

Author: Rick Anthony Furtak
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/29/2010
Pages: 274
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780521897983